Word: peakes
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...been a stormy petrel in the labor movement for years. At 25, he organized the United Electrical Workers Union. In 1949, after he had trouble with infiltrating Communists, he broke off from the U.E., founded the I.U.E. under the auspices of the C.I.O. He brought it to a peak membership of 397,000 in 1956. Then, owing mostly to Carey's dictatorial methods, it began to lose members...
...embassy in Saigon (see THE NATION) were in sharp contrast to a curious silence on the ground in South Viet Nam. For nearly a month the Viet Cong "main force" has been lying low, refusing to tangle with the South Vietnamese army. Communist-provoked incidents have dropped from a peak of 1,020 a week during December (long before U.S. air strikes began) to 400 a week last month. In the critical Mekong Delta, South Viet Nam's prized and hotly-contested "rice bowl," night attacks by the Viet Cong slumped to the lowest level in years...
King called for more marches-on segregated schools, on poverty and "on ballot boxes until race baiters disappear from the political arena." He lifted the crowd to a peak with a rhythmic, almost hypnotic chant: "I know you are asking today, 'How long will it take?' I come to say to you this afternoon however difficult the moment, however frustrating the hour, it will not be long because truth pressed to earth will rise again. How long? Not long, because no lie can live forever. How long? Not long, because you still reap what you sow. How long...
Bobby had acquitted himself well on an exploit he had undertaken rather reluctantly. Months ago, the National Geographic Society asked then Attorney General Bobby and his brother, Massachusetts' Senator Teddy Kennedy, to join in an assault on Mount Kennedy, a 14,000-ft. peak that had never been climbed. Part of the St. Elias Range, it was called East Hubbard* until the Canadian government renamed it in honor of the late President. Both Teddy and Bobby agreed to join the expedition, but then Teddy suffered a broken back in an airplane crash and had to withdraw...
...runway, weighing 500,000 Ibs., the heaviest at which an aircraft has ever flown. During the 1-hr. 40-min. test, the plane set a new record for continuous supersonic flight: 74 min., at speeds ranging from Mach 1.4 (920 m.p.h.) to Mach 2.1 (1,425-m.p.h.) at a peak altitude...