Word: leap
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...pole vaulters had the most trouble. Four of the six failed to clear any height and only three jumps were successful. Steve Schoonove fresh from his 15'7'' leap indoors, needed three trys to make 12 feet. But won when he made 12'6'' on his first try after he had taken off one of his two sweat suits...
...characters involved in this steeplechase haven't any Hamlet-like opportunities. They don't develop passions; they leap from one passion to another. A lady may brutally reject a man, then delightedly choose him. There are a couple of acts and no warnings in between...
Prior to last week's leap into the jet age, C.A.L.'s coffers were filled chiefly by the wages of war. Charter work in Viet Nam uses 19 of its aircraft, and China Air pilots have been shot at by Red Chinese, Pathet Lao and Viet Cong. Admitting that he has no clearer picture of the Viet Nam war than anyone else, 55-year-old President Ben Y.C. Chow, a former Chinese-air-force lieutenant general who retired in 1964 to take the controls at C.A.L., is nevertheless planning for a more peaceful future. "Everything...
...high time for mitun-which is Hebrew for slow down, and has become the government's slogan for a slew of measures designed to put the brakes on the economy. "The objective," explained Israeli Finance Minister Pinhas Sapir, "is simply to step back a pace in order to leap forward." So far, that step back has been bigger than anyone expected...
...brilliance, not the ability to leap on an incisive phrase or turn out a sharply etched paper which characterized the man or made him invaluable. In the five days since his death in Vietnam, the people who worked with him have tried to express just what it was. "He made himself immediately available, to give us counsel," said a woman who helped establish a program to bus Boston Negro students to the suburbs. "This meant any time of day or night; I could always reach...