Word: short
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...RECONCILING oneself to a certain low level of comfort one is freed from the urge to participate in the system. The only thing that keeps a person grinding away at an unfulfilling 9-to-5 job, dressed neatly in suit and tie, hair cut short to acceptable levels, is the lure of personal advancement with its accompanying psychic and material benefits...
...pilots and two flight engineers sleeping in shifts are on every flight, he says. The planes generally fly straight from Lisbon to Biafra, unload and then fly to Bisau. Portuguese Guinea, or St. Isabel or St. Tome, Fernando Po (also Portuguese). Once there, they sometimes fly a short triangle, carrying only food, between Biafra, Bisau, and Fernando Po before returning to Lisbon...
Defensively, Harvard met Columbia's early rushing challenge and beat it back, but had trouble containing the Lions' very talented passer Marty Domres, an accurate short thrower. Columbia's strategy was the strangest part of this day's game...
Died. B. Brewster Jennings, 70, president and chief executive from 1944 to 1958 of Mobil Oil Corp.; after a short illness; in Manhattan. Born to wealth and oil (his maternal and paternal grandfathers were among John D. Rockefeller's early partners), Jennings spent his entire working life at Mobil. Under his command, what was once primarily a marketing outfit became one of the world's greatest oil producers, with fields and refineries on five continents bringing in revenues that came to $5.9 billion last year...
...short while later, only the girl in the pink bikini and the boy in the white bathing suit were still in the water. After a minute he stopped and resumed his place on the edge of the pool. Moments afterward, the girl climbed out and sat next to him. They began to talk...