Word: peake
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...reason for the ghost-town appearance at both space installations is all too obvious: the adventure that riveted the attention of the world for more than ten years is over. NASA'S budget dropped from a peak of $5.9 billion in 1966 to some $3.2 billion this year. Only five of 42 launch pads built at Cape Canaveral are still in use-mainly to launch unmanned communications and exploratory satellites, including...
...systems. In San Francisco, a 5% decline in transit customers has been matched by an increase in auto traffic on the Bay and Golden Gate bridges. The same pattern holds for the Metro in Washington, B.C., where the number of bus riders is steadily dwindling from a peak of 2.6 million passengers a week at the height of the energy shortage in March. Another gas-saving alternative-car pooling-has caught on only in Washington, and there only because the Federal Government is actively promoting the habit. New rules for parking lots next to Government buildings give priority for coveted...
...their obviousness is not deceptive; it is just obvious. And Ramos, whose Batmen and Playboy Bunnies go as far as pop ever went in unctuous, opportunistic triviality, seems to be in the show merely to illustrate an amusing feedback loop between pop and commercial art. In 1962, at the peak of the Batman revival, Ramos got some mileage from painting the masked hero of Bob Kane's comic strip. Four years later, a Batman comic returned the compliment by illustrating a pop exhibition in the Gotham City museum; on the wall were paintings clearly meant to look like Ramos...
After his peak in the late twenties, Ruth's knees began to give out from under his great body. His powerful arms could still wield a bat, but his legs could no longer carry him around the bases or the outfield. He was released from the Yankees in 1934 but his obstinacy carried him into the 1935 season with the Boston Braves. In a game against the Pirates on May 25, 1935, the Babe hit his last three home runs...
Most of this strategy was probably devised by Nixon himself, but it has both come together and reached its peak since St. Clair became his chief legal strategist early in January. Not only is Nixon being scrutinized by the Judiciary Committee but, more important, he is on trial in the court of public opinion. At long last he has a lawyer who?unlike his previous counsel?is a seasoned courtroom attorney. Moreover, St. Clair's Washington experience (see box page 12) goes back to the classic Army-McCarthy hearings of 1954, when he was an assistant to Joseph N. Welch...