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Other areas of the country where farmers are a greater percentage of the population are still loyal to standard time. But Speno becomes almost rhapsodic when he thinks about daylight saving time: "Light seems to lengthen our days and our lives because time is really an experience of the mind. The light will end for each of us, and maybe for all of us suddenly. It is certainly within our power now to rescue an hour of light every day for six more months of the year...
Christmas Island. It was in the light of those somber findings that President Kennedy moved toward his decision that the U.S. should resume its tests in the atmosphere. He was in no rush to announce his decision until the complex test facilities were fully prepared, for that would only lengthen the U.S. exposure to vitriolic attack from ban-the-bomb opinion around the world...
...called 'walking in the air.' It is just like running in the air. I take three and a half steps in the air before I land." He practiced stretching his arms high above his head to force his body up, learned to keep his legs rigid to lengthen his distance and to reach out as far as possible with his feet before landing in the sawdust...
...what he had touched off. True enough, he had some provocation. After giving Tunisia independence in 1956, and promising to negotiate the future of the great Bizerte naval airbase, France has since refused to budge. Then Bourguiba learned that the French, instead of preparing to leave, were planning to lengthen the airstrip...
...year term, once considered unlikely in the extreme, are now a better-than-even-money proposition. And as the results of his policies start to show -inflation cut, unemployment virtually wiped out, the peso strengthened, retail sales up-the odds should begin to lengthen considerably...