Word: ladders
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...their Danang perimeter. By the end of this year, a steel-mesh net platform that can be laid by helicopters across jungle treetops will be in use by choppers as a do-it-yourself landing pad; the disgorged troops shinny down through the branches on a metal and nylon ladder...
Families in the Future. As a result of their experience, the aquanauts brought back recommendations for changes in future Sealab equipment. They found that the staging area, a 4-ft. by 6-ft. section where the divers change their suits, was too small. The ladder was not designed with flipper-feet in mind. And the refrigerator was too small. Otherwise, the aquanauts are ready and anxious to return to the depths. "It's in the state of the art now to build an underwater home for a family," says Carpenter. And the Carpenter family, he allows, wouldn...
...Dark got himself fired - for telling a newsman that Negroes and Latins are no match for white ballplayers "when it comes to mental alertness." Back came Franks as the Giants' manager for 1965. Most experts picked the Giants to finish no better than fifth, one rung down the ladder from last year. They had only one lefthanded pitcher on their roster - Bob Hendley - whom they swiftly traded off to Chicago. Star Slugger Orlando Cepeda (31 homers, 97 RBIs in 1964) was laid up, maybe permanently, with an injured knee. Leftfielder Willie McCovey was suffering from bone spurs and fallen...
Onward & Upward. In 1933 Shuman married Ida Wilson, an Indiana-born math teacher. By that time, he was climbing the ladder in the Farm Bureau, which he joined in 1929. By 1945 he was the $7,500-a-year president of the statewide Farm Bureau. Its offices were in Chicago, but Shuman decided it was best for his four children to grow up on the farm. After nine years, Shuman moved into the top spot of the national organization in 1954. Ida, whom he credits with having provided much of his drive, died four months before his election...
...army of the resentful and desperate in the North is an army without generals−without captains−almost without sergeants." For this lack of responsible leadership he found a cause that most politicians are too polite to mention: "Too many Negroes who have succeeded in climbing the ladder of education and well-being have failed to extend their hand to help their fellows on the rungs below. Civil rights leaders cannot with sit-ins change the fact that adults are illiterate. Marches do not create jobs for their children...