Word: peakes
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Marshall Field died, everything was going right for him," said Katherine, his second wife, who divorced him in 1963. She was talking about the publishing business, and her assessment was correct. When Marshall Field IV died fortnight ago at 49 (TIME, Sept. 24), Field Enterprises, Inc., was at its peak...
...peak of ecstasy in the Kingdom of Peace came in 1949, when the evangelist made public his marriage to Edna Rose Ritchings, the comely 21-year-old daughter of a white Vancouver florist, his "Spotless Virgin Bride." The original Mother Divine, a Negro, had died six years earlier; her spirit, Father Divine explained, had passed into Rose's shapely form...
Once aligned with the U.S., marvelous things happened to Pakistan. Tanks, jet planes, new weapons, experts, food poured in. By last year, Pakistan had received $1.5 billion dollars in military aid and $3.5 billion in economic aid?about $50 per person. Relations reached their peak in 1961, when Ayub Khan rode a wave of popularity through the U.S. Speaking before a joint session of Congress, he said: "The only people who will stand by you in Asia are the people of Pakistan ? provided you are prepared to stand by them." He boated up the Potomac to Mount Vernon with...
...time to bring their issues to market, feel that the current advance provides the proper opportunity. The market showed signs of profit-taking at week's end, may yet have some rocky sessions ahead. Many analysts are predicting, nonetheless, that it will soon break through to a new peak. Whatever the fall may bring, the market has exuberantly dissolved its summer doubts...
Even without such futuristic paraphernalia, city traffic in most places is moving better than it ever has. Driving time from one distant suburb into downtown Houston averaged 26.7 minutes during peak hours in 1960, now takes just 17.7 minutes. Los Angeles has a last laugh too: in 1957 a survey showed that peak-hour speeds on all freeways and streets averaged 24 m.p.h.; last year the average was up to 31 m.p.h.-not grand prix, but better than most mass transit...