Word: lifting
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...tailored togs and thin skins do not prove as warm as the traditional thick parkas, the girls have one consolation-they can get that much closer to their dates riding up in the chair lift...
...move most of the million-plus pounds of goodies, the Pentagon hurriedly organized Operation Christmas Star, a gift-lift mounted by Air Force Reserve and Air National Guard planes and pilots (who flew on their own time). By last week, 64 planeloads had been ferried the 8,000 miles from California to Viet Nam, with 18 more scheduled to go before Christmas. Many more gifts went by mail or private transportation. Michigan's Booth newspaper chain picked up the tab for airlifting the state's Christmas packages to Michigan boys in the war zone...
...what is more logical than to tuck a TV screen into a painting. Or at least so thinks Tom Wesselmann, 34, who fiddles with the girl who doesn't exist, the supersex symbol, the Great American Nude, and sets her in homey seraglio scenes decorated with real radiators. Lift the Venetian blind, and there is a calendar painting of a Japanese harbor. Or, as in one recent Nude, the whole scene is stamped out of multicolored translucent plastic and glows from within by electric lights...
Historic as it was, it was probably the least-watched lift-off yet. Millions of Americans were outdoors on a bright Saturday afternoon, driving in the country or Christmas shopping. Millions who stayed in were glued to football games on TV. They missed a fascinating launch. Rain threatened to scrub the mission until 31 hours before blastoff. A minor pressure loss in a fuel cell soon after the capsule achieved orbit was quickly remedied by switching pressure from the breathing oxygen tank to the fuel-cell oxygen tank. And in the first minutes of Gemini 7's flight, Borman...
...woman employed as an assembler in a California electronics plant. Although she holds a degree in electronics, she wrote, and could make from $1 to $3 an hour more as a technician, her employer refused to pro mote her on the convenient ground that she might have to lift something weighing more than 25 Ibs.- which would violate a California law that prohibits women workers from doing just that...