Word: lifted
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...first there was good reason for the Russian lead. In 1954, when the Soviets began work on their intercontinental ballistic missiles, they needed an engine powerful enough to lift their outsize nuclear warheads. They gave top priority to that goal and developed the 800,000-lb.-thrust, liquid-fueled booster engine that has since provided the power for their spectacular out-space shots as well as their ICBMs. The U.S., with a smaller warhead, did not require such massive power, settled on the 360,000-lb.-thrust Atlas engine, still the biggest in the U.S. space arsenal...
Business Booster. The Homestead turned to skiing to fill its rooms in winter, when business drops from 500 guests a day during summer to 30. Now, after investing $376,000 in clearing trails, installing a ski lift and a snow machine, winter business is up to 150 guests a day. Homestead's success has encouraged other investors to plan a resort near Gatlinburg, Tenn. The investors are dickering with Larchmont Engineering, Lexington, Mass., the largest manufacturer of snow makers, for machines...
Less than a minute later, Dean Alpine gave Crimson hopes their biggest lift of the rest of the evening, poking in the puck after a pile up in front of B.C.'s cage, ingalls and Heintzman had assists on the play. The goal pulled Harvard up to a 3-2 deficit...
...Tools. His message eschewed the massive pump-priming plans and public-works projects dear to some economists, stressed instead the expansion of existing programs. He urged Congress to boost minimum social security benefits (from $33 a month to $43), lift the minimum wage (from $1 an hour to $1.15 immediately, then to $1.25 within two years), stretch out unemployment compensation payments, and pass a depressed-areas bill. Said House Republican Minority Leader Charles Halleck of those proposals: "We find no great quarrel with them, but we do not find them earthshaking...
Eskimo Pie. France's Périllat was all but born to his crown. His mother used to ski back and forth between La Clusaz and her family's Alpine farmhouse; his father ran a La Clusaz ski lift. At four, Guy got his first pair of skis for Christmas. Even before he could fasten them on by himself, he could use them well enough to tackle the steepest and most treacherous slopes. From the start, he aimed at becoming a champion. Recalls one townsman: "Guy seemed to realize even before he could reason that he would have...