Word: reached
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...National Shrine's 56-bell carillon thunders into a window-rattling medley of works by Handel, Bach, Purcell and a new composition by Dutch-born Johan Franco. During the hour-long tintinnabulation, the principals and their guests will arrive under the unblinking scrutiny of TV. Inside-mercifully beyond reach of electronic peeping-the company and a pool of newsmen will see the father of the bride decked out in the formal regalia, morning coat and striped trousers, that he refused to don for the presidential inauguration in 1965. While the organist plays Paraphrase on a Trumpet Tune by Henry...
...since concentrated on finding and financing promising G.O.P. candidates. Encouraged by Rockefeller's showing against Faubus, Republicans have put up a record 516 candidates for state and local offices this year (v. 165 in 1964), and are confident that Arkansas' top job is within reach at last...
Ground fire tore into his Crusader outside Haiphong, setting it aflame and pushing the plane into an all but ungovernable wobble. Unable to reach the sea, Adams cajoled the faltering craft toward a desolate-looking mountain area, away from the densely populated Hanoi-Haiphong complex. Half a mile from a looming mountain peak, at an altitude of 200 ft., he radioed: "Sorry about that. See you in a year"-then he pulled his cockpit ejection loops seconds before the plane piled into the peak...
...scene is not science fiction. Storm-spotting sensors and the micrometeorological predictions of an orbiting weatherman are well within the reach of today's technology, giving man for the first time in his history the tools at least to tame, if not to conquer, the weather. Weather research has experienced a breakthrough in the past few years, and scientists around the world are rushing to take advantage of what the National Academy of Sciences calls "this new and enormous power to influence the conditions of human life." This year alone the U.S. Government has published some 1,700 pages...
...three years to a current total of more than 1,250,000. Sales are still accelerating, and the number of accidents is mounting faster than the number of vehicles. Deaths increased from 882 in 1963 to 1,118 in 1964 to 1,580 last year, and are expected to reach 1,900 this year. The fatality rate for cycle riders and their "buddy seat" pals is five times that of automobile occupants...