Word: peakes
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Before President Kennedy issued the executive order exempting married men, the Army drafted few men under 23. The decrease in the manpower pool and a drop in the rate of re-enlistment have forced draft quotas up from 9000 a month before the executive order to a peak of 17,000 this November...
...engineers found that "contrary to popular belief, the volumes of traffic going through the Harvard Square area are relatively small." About 6000 motor vehicles traveled through the 75-block study area during the evening peak, half of them passing the MTA klosk...
Since Streectar (1947), Williams has operated below peak form. He has offered a stream of new and rewritten works--a dozen of them--but only in parts of Cat on a Hot Tin Roof is the old mastery evident. Earlier this month a revised version of Tinkerer Williams' The Milk Train Doesn't Stop Here Any More failed as decisively as had its previous version a year ago. More and more people are suspecting that Williams has been a burned-out writer for a long time; and many of these date the demise from the time Williams started undergoing psychoanalysis...
...skiers were on hand for the winter's biggest pre-Olympic competition. When lack of snow forced cancellation of the downhill race and threatened to wipe out the whole program, the Swiss moved the races to the base of the Eiger, a forbidding 13,036-ft. peak in the Bernese Alps that has claimed the lives of a score of mountain climbers...
Died. Gorgeous George, 48, who got nowhere in professional wrestling as plain George Wagner until he changed his name, did his peroxided hair in pageboys and upsweeps, after which wrestling fans gladly paid him $70,000 a year for ten peak years in the late 1940s and early '50s to see him take his lumps from the regular guys; of a heart attack; in Los Angeles...