Word: narrower
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...south is the narrow corridor that gives Alabama access to the sea. The major seaport city of Mobile (pop. 202,000) likes to think of itself as a miniature New Orleans. A cosmopolitan place, Mobile exudes a certain Southern charm, with towering live oaks along the streets, and botanical gardens featuring beautiful azaleas and camellias. Though the harbor is Mobile's chief resource, industry too has come to town: Alcoa is there, along with a couple of paper mills and a fast-growing chemical industry. Like Huntsville, Mobile quietly desegregated its lunch counters without bicker or bother...
Dark Suits & Mantillas. By 8:30 a.m. last Wednesday, tour buses from all over Europe had begun to jockey for parking spaces next to the majestic curve of the Bernini colonnade that guards St. Peter's Basilica. Cars and taxis began to clog the narrow streets near the Vatican. Out of them stepped bishops, priests, brothers, nuns, seminarians. About half the pilgrims were Italian, many of them attired as for a picnic. But there were plenty of men dressed in their darkest business suits, and women in discreet blacks, lacy mantillas tossed over elaborate coiffures...
...roughly three minutes at the peak of the rocket's orbit, the spectrometer functioned in its first mode of operation, recording the intensity of ultraviolet light over a narrow range of frequencies. Three and one half scans were completed before the Aerobee plunged back towards earth...
...Down. Citing McNamara's rejection of the recommendations in two aircraft contracts-the TFX and the V/STOL-Anderson said that "military experience builds an appreciation of the truth that slight margins make big differences when the chips are down. Those who fought in the Pacific know what the narrow margin of operational superiority in the Japanese Zero fighter cost in American lives. I have had two nephews-both Navy pilots-who have been lost in peacetime in naval aircraft. We feel emotionally aroused as well as dispassionately concerned if the recommendations of the uniformed chiefs of our services, each backed...
...runway in Denver and hit a truck, 16 passengers died not from the impact of the crash but from burns and fume inhalation after crowded conditions in the coach section prevented them from getting out. Patterson is still bothered by the tragedy. Asks he: "Do narrow aisles and sardine seating provide adequate evacuation of jet aircraft? In all good conscience, just how many passengers can you squeeze into a plane?" Significantly, Patterson's one-class planes have a 20-in.-wide aisle v. 17 in. in ordinary coach and 16 in. on the even more cramped aisles on some...