Word: perring
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Massachusetts by one vote out of 102,066. In the 1916 presidential election, Charles Evans Hughes seemed a certain winner until returns from California two days later gave Woodrow Wilson the state by some 4,000 votes out of the nearly 1,000,000 cast. Less than one vote per precinct could have swung the election to Hughes. In 1960, John Kennedy beat Nixon by only 112,803 popular votes out of 68.8 million. Less than one vote per precinct would have given Nixon a popular victory...
...country, is a magnet for the poor of other states and communities. The city's budget since 1965 has risen 40% to almost 56 billion, more than any state-including the state of New York-spends in a year. Real estate taxes have gone up 260 per $100 (but the assessed valuation has risen more than $2 billion), and for the first time the city has levied an income tax. Strike has followed strike, and New Yorkers can only speculate on what essential service will be cut off next. Many of the promising young men who joined Lindsay...
...only partly lifted, other heavy equipment, including tanks and armored personnel carriers, most likely will follow. Making the most of Greece's new strategic importance, the junta is demanding a 50% increase in U.S. aid, which prior to the coup had been averaging $65 million per year...
Fogged Windows. The space doctors' worst fear-that the cold-plagued astronauts would suffer ear damage during re-entry-was not realized. As Apollo's cabin pressure was raised from the 5.3 Ibs. per sq. in. maintained during space flight to sea-level pressure of 14.7 p.s.i., the astronauts protected their ears by removing their helmets and performing the "Valsalva maneuver" (named for its inventor, the 18th century Italian anatomist Antonio Valsalva). Holding their noses, closing their mouths and trying vigorously to exhale through their nostrils, they forced air through their clogged Eustachian tubes to keep the pressure...
...suppose Dow spent $150 to fly me out to Midland and feed and hotel me so I would return to inform the readers of this newspaper that only five per cent of Dow's business is with the federal government, and only one half per cent is napalm. That Dow is good to its employees, and that Dow wishes the war were over as much...