Word: peakes
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...LETTERS OF F. SCOTT FITZGERALD, edited by Andrew Turnbull. These touching letters follow the novelist from the peak of precocious success in the '20s to the slough of final despond in the '30s, when he watched his wife go mad and saw his best work scorned...
Another obstacle stands in the way of manned flight into space in 1969, an obstacle which no expenditure can overcome: the sun. The end of this decade will be a maximum in the sun's eleven year cycle of activity. At unpredictable times during the solar cycle's peak, cataclysmic eruptions on the sun eject clouds of deadly high-energy particles deep into space. The chance of such an event occuring during a one-week lunar journey in 1969 will probably be about one to three, odds on which the U.S. has neither the right nor the wish to risk...
...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...
Three chaotic years after intervening in the Congo, the U.N. military forces last week were packing up to leave. Under orders from Secretary General U Thant, the remaining 5,077 combat troops (already pared sharply from a peak of 19,000 since the final crushing of Katanga last January) are scheduled for departure by Dec. 31. The planned pull-out represents a victory for such intransigent opponents of the U.N. Congo operation as Russia and France. Chiefly because of the holdouts' refusal to help share the costs, the U.N. is $140 million in debt, and Thant...
...biggest industrialists in East Africa are neither black natives nor British settlers but four enterprising Indians-the Madhvani brothers-who run 18 companies worth $30 million in Uganda, Kenya and Tanganyika. They stand at the peak of a bulging settlement of clever, clannish Indians, who came to work on the railroads at the turn of the century and stayed to do well in commerce. Unlike most of the clan, now fearful of the future under independent African rule and sending their savings abroad, the young Madhvanis are determined to remain and are vigorously expanding to prove it. Says the senior...