Word: lifting
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...busiest weeks. Across the country, 92 other Ford plants were shuttered in the second week of a United Auto Workers walkout. And at Manhattan's Radio City Music Hall for the first time in 35 years, the famed Rockettes, all 46 of them, refused to lift another shapely leg onstage until they were given a minimum of $140 a week (they now earn $99 to start...
Having lived 30 years in Watts, Watkins knew firsthand what was needed to lift the area from the mire of resentment and despair: first a hospital, next employment for the angry kids, then a start on badly needed adult payrolls. Watkins linked jobs with community improvement and got money to spend on all three projects. He also persuaded the Los Angeles city government to let him plant vegetable gardens along water-main rights of way in the widely ducted conurbation, putting farm-bred Southern migrants to work for pay at the only jobs they know well...
...spacecraft!" is a distress call the National Aeronautics and Space Administration hopes never to hear again. In the aftermath of last January's Apollo fire, NASA is spending more than $100 million to that end. By the time Astronauts Wally Schirra, Bonn Eisele and Walter Cunningham lift off a launch pad for the first manned Apollo flight next year, their spacecraft should be virtually fireproof...
After a period of unusually low visibility, Johnson surfaced last week with a speech, an open letter to Congress, and his first full-dress, televised press conference since March. Despite all the words, he did little to give his leadership image a lift; during most of the press conference he was of solemn mien, his head canted downward...
...party at the Saratoga Golf Club. Even Marylou, as she has styled herself ever since she got to like the signature on her oil paintings, admitted that the big pearls might seem "too much" for just an afternoon tea dance. But if ever a gal needed a lift last week, it was Marylou...