Word: liftings
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Engines Running. The transport pilots take enormous risks to bring supplies into Khe Sanh. The base sits in a valley that is at present enveloped almost constantly by a thick mist that will not lift until the monsoon ends in early April. Pilots must feel their way in for landings with a ceiling of less than 100 ft.-even though Air Force standards call for a minimum of 300 ft. In addition to the mist, they must make their letdown through turbulent air and a tail wind, cope with a sudden updraft before touchdown and land on a runway that...
...night" in Point Anne, Ont., when the doctor delivered his fifth child (of eleven) and announced: "The only difference between your son and you is that he doesn't eat so much." Bobby weighed 12 Ibs. at birth. His father, a 240-lb. cement worker, could lift the front end of a car, and he was also a fair country hockey player-which is what folks do to keep warm in the long Ontario winters...
...spent most of her energies keeping official appointments and answering as many as 60 letters a day. Her rewards were the unglamorous ailments of the busy executive-insomnia, headaches, poor digestion-none of which responded to the usual bad medical advice of the times: run around the room and lift weights. Style could hardly look more inglorious...
...more incisive than Romney's cloudy oratory, but occasionally it seemed that they had a common guru. "The real crisis of America today," Nixon declared at one point, "is a crisis of the spirit. What America needs most today is what it once had, but has lost: the lift of a driving dream." Richard Nixon's personal dream is driving him from a $200,000-a-year New York law practice into what he referred to last week as "the snows of New Hampshire and Wisconsin, the roses of Portland, and what have you." How long the dream...
...good news for those of you, who don't race; Glen Ellen Ski Area in Waits-field, Vt., is offering a learn-to-ski deal over the week of Wshington's Birthday. A $35 investment will get you five two, hour ski lessons and use of all lifts. For you skiers who like Waterville, but not the Harvard-Wellesley bus syndrome, you can get a college discount on lift tickets during the week if you present your bursar's card...