Word: peake
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...officials generally reduce that figure, but even the most skeptical admit that there are countless thousands of part-time, or "plastic," hippies who may "drop out" only for a night or two each week. By all estimates, the cult is a growing phenomenon that has not yet reached its peak-and may not do so for years to come...
...Asimov feels that he must work even faster. He has been haunted ever since boyhood by the fact that the human brain reaches the peak of physiological development by the age of 16, after which it can only deteriorate. "My memory is not what it used to be," he says, "and some day the atrophy of the brain cells will overtake the benefits of my experience...
...moving ahead again," many dark spots remain. Despite massive stimulation to business through an easing of credit and a sharp rise in federal spending, industrial production has slipped four months out of the past five on the Federal Reserve Board index; in May, it fell 2% below its December peak. The nation's real output of goods and services, in the first three months of this year, missed its clockwork quarterly advance for the first time since...
...recent years, however, the menhaden has been in decline, and with it all of the largest U.S. fisheries, which dropped from a peak 1961 catch of 2.3 billion lbs. to 1966's 1.3 billion. The worst hit area has been the mid-Atlantic, where poundage dived from 130.2 million in 1965 to 17.4 million in 1966 -and last month, as the fishing craft set out for another season, the outlook was dim. Spotter planes that precede the boats saw few menhaden schools...
Died. Lieut. General Glen R. Birchard, 53, head of the Alaskan Command, who, during the Berlin airlift, developed intricate plans that enabled the Air Force to hit a peak flow of an average 624 planes daily into the besieged city, finally took over the Alaskan Command in August 1966, was responsible for the operations of 40,000 military personnel; of drowning after his float plane crashed on takeoff from Upper Ugashik Lake, Alaska, during a fishing trip...