Word: leap
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...reason that President Kennedy could not do more was that President Eisenhower had already done much. The Eisenhower Administration had extended unemployment coverage, broadened social security benefits and taxes and speeded up federal procurement. Indeed Ike had arranged things so that new Government contracts will leap by $10.7 billion this fiscal year, to $86 billion...
Chris O'Hiri set a new freshman record in the broad jump yesterday, as the Yardlings defeated Andover, 70 1/2 to 38 1/2, in an away meet. O'Hiri cleared 23 ft., 5 in. on his record leap, the best effort by any Harvard performer, freshman or varsity, in several years...
After a solemn five-day meeting of the Central Committee, they issued a communiqué that flatly reversed Chairman Mao Tse-tung's cherished plan to achieve a "big leap" in industry. Instead, the communiqué called for "appropriately reduced" industrial investments and urged "all sectors and occupations to step up support for agriculture" as "the foundation of the national economy...
Affable Art Tokle has no business even trying a ski jump, let alone winning meets. At 38, Tokle is an old, old man in the young daredevil's sport of taking a flying leap off a mountainside. Yet he is one of the most consistently successful of all U.S. jumpers, has won 17 of his last 19 meets at Bear Mountain, N.Y. Explains Tokle, "I improve with...
Rolling the Barrel. Art Tokle himself tottered onto skis at the age of 18 months, took his first jump at such a tender age that he does not remember it, and won his first meet at seven with a leap of over 60 ft. During the war, the Germans interrupted his career by putting him into the copper mines for 4½ years of forced labor. In 1947 Tokle came to the U.S. and promptly began winning meets. Twice national champion (1951, 1953), Tokle was still good enough three years ago to finish a respectable fourth, jumping against some...