Word: lowe
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...recent tests of their theory, the Air Force scientists chose Smith Moun tain Airport, near Roanoke, Va., which is often socked in by moist, low-lying mist. The Air Force made available twin-turbine CH-3E helicopters for use as air-mixing devices...
...Force scientists are conducting further experiments in California to refine their fog-dispersing system, but they say that it has already proved practical under combat conditions in Southeast Asia. Twice, after Air Force planes were forced down and obscured by low-lying cloud banks in enemy-infested territory, rescue helicopters spiraled overhead until they had cleared holes in the clouds. They then lowered lines and rescued the downed pilots, who thus became the first beneficiaries of a novel procedure that Air Force scientists hope will soon become routine...
...softspoken, always courteous man, he preferred understatement. He put down Alabama's Governor George Wallace's 1963 defiance at the schoolhouse door as "a little man standing alone in his diminishing circle." Fittingly, his last column, an open letter to new HEW Secretary Robert Finch, was a low-key plea that the Federal Government not yield to Southern plans to perpetuate dual school systems for Negroes and whites. "The freedom of choice plan is, in fact, neither real freedom nor a choice," McGill wrote. "It is discrimination...
...like the way it's developing?") were shallow and awkward and Max was fairly addled. No wonder. Max may be 66, but he sat there looking for all the world like a man who is being teased to death, directly between a delicious Negro model in a low-cut dress and an extraordinarily endowed Playmate. During a break, Lerner was asked what he thought of the show. Said Max: "Some of my readers won't believe me when they see me sitting next to that girl. I think they put her next to me on purpose...
...Little Giant. For all the P.M A. theatricals, Combined Insurance is efficiently run and rapidly growing. In 1967, it earned $19 million on $130-million-worth of premiums, largely by tapping a part of the market that most other insurers have overlooked. Stone developed the low-cost Little Giant health and accident policies that are sold without a medical examination or credit check, mostly to shopkeepers and employees of firms without disability income plans. For a $3 annual premium, the policy pays disability benefits of $15 a week for 15 weeks; most customers buy two or more policies. Sales...