Word: shapes
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...beat Cornell, I think we can do it," he said. "We've been looking sharp in practice and team spirit is sky high. I've got an awful lot of confidence in our ability, and aside from needing more work on attack-midfield coordination, we'll be in top shape for Cornell...
...which will best illuminate a story, whether the subject is king, clown or space capsule. The picture researchers-all of them women-have a hectic work week, since in most cases the question as to which picture will be most effective is not answerable until the story has taken shape. Thus the girls must mix the prophetic with the photographic, culling from many sources hundreds of pictures that may or may not satisfy fast-changing requirements of world events and the flow of new ideas out of editors' offices. No small part of the job is simply keeping...
...task and role of the U.S. in Viet Nam, Abe Abrams' appointment represents a rare mating of man and mission. As Westmoreland's deputy commander, Abrams has spent the past ten months working with ARVN (the Army of the Republic of Viet Nam) to shape up its structure, stiffen its spine and improve its performance. In their extremely violent Jet offensive, the Communists unwittingly showed that Abrams has had some success: to the surprise of many Americans and the consternation of the Communists, ARVN bore the brunt of the early fighting with bravery and elan, performing better than...
Died. Harold Babcock, 86, pioneer astronomer credited with discovering periodic reversals in the sun's magnetic field; of a heart attack; in Pasadena, Calif. Babcock was in semiretirement in 1958 when he noticed the reversals, theorized they would occur every eleven years and would change the shape of sunspots, dark areas on the solar surface that cause magnetic storms...
...commonplace in Johnstown, but the big worry was a huge earth dam, 15 miles away, that held back Lake Conemaugh and its 20 million tons of water. Both lake and dam belonged to a club where Pittsburgh's most powerful families "roughed it." The dam was in bad shape; every time there was a hard rain, some local wag was sure to say: 'Well, this is the day the old dam is going to break." And break it finally did, unleashing a wall of water at times 70 feet high. Within an hour, there was nothing left...