Word: peakes
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Developing such omnivision is the job of the North American Air Defense Command (NORAD), headquartered in the shadow of Pike's Peak at Colorado Springs. NORAD also must react defensively to what it sees, and give warning to U.S. and Canadian citizens to head for their shelters-if they have any. Established four years ago, NORAD has recently acquired new techniques to meet the growing threats. It can now detect almost anything bigger than a bird in the air over some 15 million sq. mi. from Iceland to Midway...
Last week, at the peak of the hiring season for the next academic year, 1962-63, most faculty deals were being carried out on the beginner level, as graduate students flocked to the holiday meetings of learned societies to be interviewed by cool-eyed professors in "the slave market." But once on a faculty, teachers are free to wheel and deal in a world where Chips have fallen and sharp young men in Brown Tweed Suits thrive on perpetual opportunity. Compared with the C.O.D. wooing of baseball players, or even with the corporate kidnaping of business executives...
Number one goalie Bob Bland also excelled on the trip, reaching his peak against Colorado Tuesday. The Bland-Wood combination is regarded by many as the best among American college teams...
...rest of their $11 million, explaining that it was impossible to maintain good material at the accelerated pace. "You'll have to give us time to think it over." said Buick. nonplused. They thought it over and finally agreed. Like all TV phenomena. Gleason had reached a peak and was apparently in decline. In 1957-58, he took a year...
...compete in the European market will require U.S. businessmen to modernize more imaginatively. The U.S. today is producing at 17% below peak capacity, but much of its unused manufacturing plant has aged into noncompetitive obsolescence. Says Federal Reserve Board Chairman William McChesney Martin Jr.: "We have lots of additional plant and equipment which could be brought into play if demand increased. But business could not sell their production without raising prices. The steel industry knows that if the demand in Europe ever slackens off and those plants are free to turn this way, they could undersell our industry almost...