Word: liftings
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Saigon last week things were quiet enough on the surface for officials to lift the nightly curfew so that New Year revelers could keep singing and drinking into the wee hours. It seemed hardly appropriate amid the tense political maneuvering taking place behind the scenes...
...members-doctors, teachers, engineers and salesmen in their 30s. At least 15 planes are in the works (ten members have joined forces in a single project). The role of an E.A.A. wife is not inconsiderable. "Mine helps when I need someone to hold the other end of something or lift something," says Gwinn. "She also helps with the painting and fabric work." But forbearance is perhaps the cardinal virtue of a woman whose husband has an airplane in gestation. "When you're working with metal, it gets pretty noisy," says Shewmaker. "And then, of course, you have to give...
...have opened in downtown Washington this year. Within 80 miles of the city are: Shawneeland near Winchester, Va., which had 78 skiing days even in a winter when the natural snowfall was only half an inch; Skyline Ski Area at Washington, Va., which has three slopes, a T-bar lift and two rope tows; Oregon Ridge at Cockeysville, Md., with four tows and a 1,900-ft. double-track slope; Strudel Run at Braddock Heights, Md., with four slopes and a T-bar lift. The more avid drive four hours to the Homestead Ski Area at Hot Springs...
Subjects who get a lift from the drug describe all colors as bright and gay-a traffic light may become an object of surpassing beauty. If the subject be comes depressed, the colors darken or bleach out. Highly colored geometric tapestries flow past the closed eyes...
...Approach. To give the economy a greater lift, Chief Presidential Economist Gardner Ackley and his colleagues on the council are readying several plans for further tax cuts, and M.I.T.'s influential Paul Samuelson has strongly counseled President Johnson to push federal spending "above the psychological level of $100 billion." The Administration figures that it will have no trouble cutting excise taxes by as much as $3 billion, but it also plans to revive the concept of "temporary" reductions in income taxes that Congress turned down when it was forwarded by John Kennedy in 1961. Instead of asking for full...