Word: peakes
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...more potential for the varsity than any team in the past four or five years," continued Stowell. However, potential is the key word with this squad. While it sports an impressive 7-1 record (its only loss coming against Yale), Stowell feels that no one has reached the peak of his ability...
...dormant, so we cannot say the patient is cured-only that his disease is arrested." But many patients can be treated at home from the start. "Others can be treated briefly, in a general hospital, and then go home. Bold surgery to remove parts of lungs was at its peak ten years ago and now is rarely necessary...
Those who think the U.S. can and will compete point out that U.S. exports last year climbed to a peak of $20.1 billion-while imports slid slightly to $14.5 billion. The export gains came despite steadily lowering U.S. tariffs, steadily increasing foreign productivity-and the much-bruited fact that wage rates run two to four times higher in the U.S. than Europe...
...three miles, but his most important weapon is a reserve of speed-a big burst that he can call on at will anytime during a race. Unlike Delany, Beatty runs against the clock; his sense of timing is so precise that he needs little prompting. Now at peak condition, Beatty will concentrate on the mile this summer, but he plans an eventual assault on every world record from 1,500 meters to 5,000 meters. He has one problem: he is injury prone. "I'm always getting hurt," says Beatty. "I've never been able to stay...
...weeks it seemed as if he might get it, especially after the Soviet Union released two imprisoned U.S. RB-47 flyers. But the Kremlin soon set about a round of troublemaking that challenged the U.S. from Laos to Berlin. Tension reached its peak with the erection of the Berlin wall and the Soviet Union's resumption of nuclear testing on a monster scale. It looked as if President Kennedy's flinty remark to a flinty Khrushchev at Vienna-"It's going to be a cold winter"-would prove all too true. But last week, after long months...