Word: lift
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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This winter, Markevitch will return to his native Russia, where he has been invited to help organize a conductors' school at the State Conservatory in Moscow. Starting with twelve-year-old students, he will apply his highly personal training techniques, confident that they will eventually lift conducting out of its "prehistoric period...
...Massachusetts, Republican Senatorial Candidate George Lodge argued that a time of crisis is a time to elect someone with experience. Democrat Ted Kennedy preferred to talk about medicare and job retraining, got a lift from House Speaker John McCormack, who pretended to forget that Ted had clobbered his nephew, Eddie, in the bitter Democratic primary. Said the Speaker about the President's youngest brother: "He's a great man, and he'll make a great Senator...
...rearm the retrorockets, which will be fired automatically when the proper time comes. During the capsule's long fiery curve through the atmosphere its astronauts will have a slight degree of control. By firing attitude rockets and tilting the capsule, they will be able to give it aerodynamic lift and so control to some extent the point where it approaches the ground. When it reaches about 48,000 ft the pilot will release a steerable paraglider. This final control is important because Gemini capsules will come down on land, not on the ocean, and the pilot will have...
...only moneymaker Kittay ever bought. Next came Mullins Mills and County Mills, which together sell $20 million in knitted outerwear. Two months ago, Kittay moved into women's undergarments, bought Flexees International, which makes girdles, bras and swim suits. Using prudent aggression, Kittay hopes eventually to lift B.V.D. to first place from its present fourth place in men's underwear, behind Fruit of the Loom, Cooper's and Hanes. For next to nothing else, Sol Kittay likes B.V.D. best...
...were general in industries ranging from brewing, cosmetics and food processing to lumber, gypsum and aerospace. Standard Brands' earnings rose from $4.6 million to $5.1 million and Procter & Gamble's from $333 million to $35.1 million. In the long-sputtering transportation business, a 3% fare rise helped lift the profits of United...