Word: lift
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Government's suit, ordered the package delivered. When, in 1937, Attorney General Homer Cummings announced that the Government would not carry the case to the Supreme Court, the mails were opened for good, although it was not until last year that Connecticut became the last state to lift its ban against birth control clinics...
...will be some time before Valenti succeeds in dousing Hollywood with a good helping of "soul juice"-if he succeeds at all-but he is such an excessively eager fellow that his mere presence has given Hollywood a lift. Says he: "I came to this job not misshapen by old ideas and old prejudices. I don't know what's 'impossible' to do, and so I go ahead and try to do it. Will it work? I don't know, but I'm damn sure going to give it a whirl...
When it hurtled back into the atmosphere, Apollo reached a speed of 19,000 m.p.h. At an altitude of 218,000 feet, small control rockets were fired, shifting Apollo so that its contoured heat shield provided a small amount of lift. As a result, Apollo literally bounced off the thickening atmosphere like a flat stone skipping across water; it rose to 264,500 feet before beginning to fall once more. The maneuver not only sliced some 3,000 m.p.h. off the craft's dangerously high descent speed but enabled its heat shield to cool before the final plunge through...
...amateurs' payloads are small and the rockets peewee size. But enthusiasm and, among the teenagers, an astonishing ratio of intelligence to years, fires them with an ample lift. Last week at the N.A.R. meet, experts from NASA, the Army and the Air Force were recruited to judge such sophisticated craft as a model Gemini-Titan constructed (in a total of 300 man-hours) on a 1-to-48 scale, complete with a two-man capsule. Sixteen-year-old Albert Kirchner of Bethpage, N.Y., woomphed off a three-stage Little Joe II-Apollo test vehicle that cost him 200 hours...
Dillying & Dallying. The final settlement, accepted by a vote of 17,727 to 8,235, is retroactive to Jan. 1, gives the machinists a three-stage pay hike that will lift the earnings of the top-rated mechanics from $3.52 an hour to $4.08 an hour by May 1, 1968. The pact also boosts holiday pay from double time to double time and a half, calls for 50-an-hour company contributions (up to $2 a week) toward health and welfare plans, provides the union with what the airlines fought longest and hardest to avoid: an automatic further pay increase...