Word: jump
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...cold cuts, supermarkets suddenly begin to sell more potatoes, carrots, turnips and stew meats, while small steaks tend to give way in popularity to roasts, ribs and the heavier cuts of meats. Tea slumps, and coffee, cocoa, soups and chili rise. Candy sales -both low-calorie and weight-increasing -jump about 40% in the fall. At the same time, down goes the lowly frankfurter; after Labor Day First National Stores, a chain of supermarkets in New England, New York and New Jersey, sell 50% fewer frankfurters and 65% fewer hot dog rolls...
...whether Britain will get into the Common Market. (If Britain does not, her businessmen will probably decide to build plants on the Continent.) France is just beginning to feel the slowdown. Industrial production has risen 7-5% in the past year, led by the auto industry's 16% jump. But new orders have dropped. Partly because of a profits pinch resulting from a 20% jump in wages over the past two years, French private industry is delaying new investment in plant and machines...
...stretch of sand, is now an international dateline. Houston, near the water route to Canaveral and New Orleans, has lately been awarded the $90 million Manned Spacecraft Center, and the fast-growing city, already the nation's seventh largest at 938,219, now expects to make a quantum jump...
Gavin was admitted to the frosty presence of President de Gaulle as often as a U.S. ambassador might expect to be, and French newspapers never failed to point out that his first visit to France was on Dday, by jump with his 82nd Airborne Division. Last week France's most influential newspaper, Le Monde, warmly praised "his profound learning, his total honesty, his devotion to his duty...
...meet before the 1960 Olympics. At 6 ft. 1 in., he was considered too small to be a threat to such towering kangaroos as World Record Holder John Thomas of the U.S. (6 ft. 5½ in. tall); coaches still held to the idea that the highest anyone could jump was about one foot above his own head. At Rome, Brumel jumped that foot, beat Thomas with a leap of 7 ft. 1 in., and he has been adding on new inches ever since. His record against Thomas is six wins, no losses, and he holds the listed world records...