Word: lakes
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...accident the sophisticated techniques used to determine the causes of plane crashes-an obvious but hitherto unheard-of innovation -it has found the "probable cause" (a switchman's error) of a collision in New York City last year. After the foundering of a 60-year-old freighter on Lake Huron in 1966 (28 died), it ordered the Coast Guard to intensify inspection of older ships plying the Great Lakes. Even a proposal to widen the breadth of trucks by six inches (to 102 inches) has not escaped the board's eye; unless highways are correspondingly widened, the accident...
Slavic voters in Lake County (Gary) divided their votes largely between Kennedy and Branigin. Kennedy was able to capture Lake County by putting together a coalition of whites and blacks based primarily on his personal charisma and a program for jobs which he developed during the Indiana campaign...
Year-Round Passage. During its first full-scale tests on Lake Ontario, the Alexbow, attached to a 65-ft. barge pushed by a 1,320-h.p. tug, cleared a 30-ft. channel in unbroken blue ice 14 inches thick. It also knifed 180° turns as though the ice were butter. Running at speeds from 21 to 31 knots, the tug accelerated easily in thinner ice because there was no friction along the sides of the barge - the Alexbow had thrown all the troublesome chunks clear...
...Princeton and Harvard first freshman boats staged a dramatic and gruelling battle to provide spectators on Lake Carnegie with the afternoon's most exciting race. Neither crew was able to establish more than a two-seat lead for the first half of the course...
Fresh from its record-smashing season debut last weekend, the varsity heavy-weight crew takes on M.I.T. and Princeton on Lake Carnegie at Princeton today...