Word: lifting
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...thrust of Shriver's program is toward creating employment and employable people, and its experiments may give guidance in determining what U.S. society and Government will do next for the Negro. For ultimately, opportunity is a good job−a job that lets a bent-down man lift up his head, marry, get a better house, form a self-respecting family, acquire the stake that damps the violent impulse...
...Lift-off from Cape Kennedy, when it finally came, was timed to the second. The countdown clock had not been stopped once−a truly remarkable demonstration of cooperation between men and intricate machines. Rising above its roaring tail in textbook exactitude, the booster flung its capsule aloft with a heart-stopping burst of power. Ahead were eight orbital days−eight days that would, if all went well, teach man more than he had ever known before about the problems and possibilities of flight in space...
Madder than Hell. Of all his NACA work, Kraft is proudest of a system that he and Phillips devised to smooth out flights in rough air. They redesigned an old twin-engine Beechcraft C45 and fitted it with automatic controls that reduced the plane's lift when it was hit by an upward gust, increased it when hit by a down draft. The system worked well, but commercial aircraft builders considered it too heavy and expensive−a decision that still infuriates Kraft. "It makes me madder than hell when I fly and have to bounce around," he complains...
...gross national product got its embarrassing face lift, another vital measure of the U.S. economy−the balance of payments−also put forward its best face in many months. In its transactions with the rest of the world, announced Treasury Secretary Henry H. Fowler, the U.S. in 1965's second quarter took in $132 million more than it sent abroad, the first quarterly surplus in nearly eight years...
...shut them up and join their friends at the seashore. But Alec Gushing, the imaginative impresario of Squaw Valley, hates to do things the conventional way. Three weeks ago he opened what he billed as "the world's highest nightclub"-at the top end of his wintertime ski lift...