Word: lifts
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...will lift up mine eyes unto the pills. Nembutal yellow as buttercups, azure amytal and the purple benzedrine, slum-berol, and hey, ho, the valleyol. Life pills to keep you sterile and death pills for inducing permanent sleep and an open verdict." The dangers of drugs were everywhere in the headlines, and Malcolm Muggeridge, 59, the gadfly columnist of Britain's New Statesman, was not the man to let opportunity sleep. Continued Muggeridge, in a biting psalm for the pill takers of our time: "A pill a day keeps the druggist in pay. Pills for slimming, pills for fattening...
...always been merely the inconvenient hulk that cuts off the January sun at 3:30 p.m. and sends swimming pool loungers shivering toward the bar. But previously inaccessible Mount San Jacinto is soon to be a resort area itself. The world's largest passenger-carrying tramway will lift vacationers from oven-like Chino Canyon to a winter-temperature summer resort some 5,900 ft. above-from the California desert to the California Alps in 15 minutes...
Bell Telephone, creator of Telstar, favors lower orbits and more of them. Existing rockets, say Bell's men, can lift communications satellites a few thousand miles above the earth, where existing ground apparatus can communicate with them dependably. Telstar, they argue, proved their point last week. But final decision on the kind of satellite to be used will depend on U.S. Government policy and also on foreign governments, which will surely demand voices in any worldwide system of communication. No matter which system is adopted, though, its satellites will be descendants of Bell's granddaddy Telstar...
...talking about the importance of Hollywood as a branch of the armed services. Pictures about the military can touch off avalanches of enlistment. They polish the image, lift morale. A common soldier sees a movie and decides he's Tab Hunter...
...that was designed to point her mast higher (to take advantage of steadier breezes that blow well above the water), make her faster beating to windward. Racing boats are like racing cars-the lighter they are, the faster they are-and Weatherly was stripped to the bone. Halyard and lift winches were removed from the mast and fastened to the deck. Unnecessary bulkheads, deck rails, and the masthead wind indicator (weight: about 2 lbs.) were gone. Even a beer cooler and a wooden pipe rack were sacrificed for speed...