Word: peakings
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Davidson leads a more settled life now. He makes films for his own Anchorage-based company, Alaska Wildlife Productions, and has published a book, Minus 148, about the first winter ascent of North America's highest peak, Mt. McKinley. (The title refers to the temperature Art and two other members of the expedition withstood when they were forced to wait out a windstorm for several days in an ice-cave near the summit. One member of the expedition died in a crevasse during the ascent; Art was lucky enough to return to Anchorage with the loss of only...
...members of TIME'S Board of Economists, meeting last week, could see only an unsatisfactory improvement on the price front next year. The board's majority forecast is that unemployment throughout 1971 will average about as high as now, reaching a peak of 6% or more during some months, partly because some 400,000 men will be mustered...
Lyndon Johnson's Great Society legislation was a financial windfall for the school. Its budget soared from $2 million in 1960 to an $8.2 million peak in 1968, 57 per cent of which was supplied by the government. Men like Daniel Patrick Moynihan, Nathan Glazer, Christopher Jencks, and David Cohen rode in on the harvest...
Mishima was an impassioned romantic whose real despair at his country's course commingled like sacrificial blood with his own deep need to return to an earlier and, in his view, much nobler Japan. Many critics in Japan felt that he passed the peak of his career as a writer-Sun and Steel, an autobiographical and philosophical book published this year, was not very favorably received-and that he feared reaching old age in obscurity. Said Critic Yamamoto: "He was already 45. After 50, he couldn't have achieved such beauty in his manner of death...
...Indochina that are under saturation bombing, that has already been escalated under Nixon. Just take the bombing statistics alone, the plain cold statistics the Pentagon gives out. Up to August, 1970, 40 per cent of the ordnance expended in the entire war is under Nixon. In fact, the peak months of bombing were early 1969, after Nixon got in, when it reached the level of 130,000 tons a month- which is just something beyond belief...