Word: peakings
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...landscape clearly now, as the child of the voice's memory does: the great country hall set at the peak of a sculptured lawn, with sunlight tinging the entire scene, flecking the grass with gold and making shadows deepen. There are two children holding tight to their caps as they're whirled to the manor door. The smaller, the pained and worried one, is Leo Coston, the narrator. Somehow, the hall is never as big as Leo's first glance suggests...
...gender could be an asset: "At important meetings, a woman is not as likely to be thrown out as a man." Demanding and visionary, in 1954 she badgered Henry Luce into promising that she would be LIFE'S first photographer to go to the moon. "Even at the peak of her career," recalled Eisenstaedt, "she was willing and eager. She would get up at daybreak to photograph a bread crumb if necessary...
...wage-price freeze fell to the little-known Office of Emergency Preparedness (see box, page 8). The OEP aims to answer all the questions raised by the freeze. But no structure is contemplated that would be remotely similar to that of the Office of Price Administration, which at its peak during World War II included 63,000 paid and over 200,000 volunteer employees. In 1942, one of those OPA employees was a young lawyer named Richard Nixon. He stayed just long enough to build an abiding dislike for the ponderous bureaucratic mechanism. So it was with some feeling that...
...faith," he said, "teaches people to live to enjoy their milk and honey and chariots -Cadillacs, Lincolns, Chryslers-here on earth instead of going to heaven." As "Dominion Ruler" of his Detroit-based Church of the Universal Triumph, Jones willingly accepted gifts from his black congregation. At his peak in the 1950s, Jones' inventory included a 54-room mansion, a gold-handled cane, a $17,000 diamond bracelet, a $12,900 white mink coat and several limousines...
I.A.T.A.'s final proposal, which must receive unanimous approval to become effective, would keep intact the basic fare of $554 for a round-trip economy flight between New York City and London in the peak season. But four innovations would substantially cut ticket prices for many vacationers. The proposed schedule would maintain transatlantic youth fares of $195 to $225, depending on the season, for anyone aged twelve through 21-a modification of the reductions that swept the industry earlier this summer. It would grant a similar privilege to adults, through an advance-purchase excursion plan (called APEX), which provides...