Word: peakes
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...took a magnetometer to the flat plain of the ancient Crathis. After only ten days of work, they located 800 yds. of a city wall buried under many feet of soil, and test pits turned up pottery fragments from the 6th century B.C., when Sybaris was at its glittering peak. British, U.S. and Italian archaeologists will continue to crisscross the area with detailed magnetometer surveys to guide large-scale excavations. By the end of summer, they hope to know whether they have really found the long-buried ruins of sybaritic Sybaris...
...near it-for twelve years is Belgium's hawknosed Rik Van Looy. To his fans, Van Looy is "the Emperor." To his competitors, he is "the Devil." Badge of the Fastest. At 28, an age at which cyclists were once considered washed up, Van Looy is at his peak, winner of more races (323) than any other cyclist in the world. He has won the world road-racing championship the last two years running, and he proudly wears the rainbow-striped shirt that is the badge of the world's best cyclist. For all this, he earns...
...when the whole world has adequate capacity?" Carried away by the paper gains of a decade during which it took real talent to lose money on the market, most small investors failed to consider the consequences of an end to inflation. When the stock market hit its December peak, stocks in the Dow-Jones index (a relatively stable, conservative group) were selling at a precariously high 23 times earnings. As prices rose, dividend yields on common stocks fell from their long-term average of 4.9% to less than 3%-well below the average 4.3% yield on high-grade bonds, which...
...next five years, until last season, Kaline was unable to resist the seductions of long-ball hitting, a specialty to which he is not genuinely suited. His peak year as a slugger was 1956, when he had 123 runs-batted-in and 27 homeruns--a more respectable figure then than now. From then on, despite fine seasons in '58 and '59, he began to fall off his early pace until in 1960 he could manage only a .278 B.A. with 15 homers and 68 R.B.I...
Looming over Ankara's busy Ataturk Boulevard like an Anatolian mountain peak is the massive, honey-colored stone structure that houses Turkey's Parliament...