Word: rising
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...sent 17 manned missions into space, but none has been as ambitious or adventurous as the next one on NASA's schedule. If all goes well, on the morning of Dec. 21 a 3,100-ton Saturn 5 will rise slowly from its pad at Cape Kennedy. Three days later, Astronauts Frank Borman, James A. Lovell Jr. and William A. Anders will be spending Christmas Eve in the spaceship Apollo 8, farther from home than any men have ever been: they will be circling the moon...
...giving the country time to repair its foundering economy. The Labor government maintained that the devalued pound would swiftly turn the U.K.'s persistent trade deficit, a major source of sterling's troubles, into a surplus. With British goods much cheaper in the world marketplace, exports would rise while imports declined because foreign products automatically would cost Britons more. Surveying the early results, Prime Minister Harold Wilson exuberantly announced last summer that his country was "on the way to an economic miracle...
...last from the rural and Southern areas of the country. He said that the suburban and prep school students are counseled better than applicants from lower income groups so that the former would tend to send in applications earlier. He added that the growth of suburbia contributes to the rise in applications...
Gunness said that he expects the number of scholarship applications to rise because of the tuition increase. He added that he hoped that the budget of the College will be able to accommodate this rise in scholarship applicants...
Prices received for tickets continued to rise. A member of the Harvard football team said that teammates had sold one block of four tickets for $320. Several Final Clubs acting as clearing-houses in the transactions are offering sellers as much as $50 each for senior tickets. Students who placed an advertisement in the CRIMSON offering tickets for sale received $60 for a pair of tickets on the ten-yard line...