Word: sixteen
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...cape and holding a pink flare controlled traffic like a matador handling a bull. On the other side of the island, traffic was directed on Riverside Drive by David Epstein, 17 He joked: "My mother told me to go out and play in the traffic, and here I am." Sixteen passers-by turned Coney Island's 150-ft.-high Wonder Wheel by hand, enabling stranded riders to reach the ground...
...European war, the U.S. would be responsible for keeping NATO's forces supplied with arms and munitions. Some materiel and reinforcements could be rushed overseas in massive air transports, like the C-5A Galaxy, which can carry to Europe 345 troops with their personal equipment or a load of sixteen trucks. But most of the gargantuan quantities of supplies required by any future conventional war that are not already prepositioned at depots in Europe will have to be sent by ship. This means that the U.S. Navy will need enough forces to keep the North Atlantic's sea lanes free...
This year's "Sweet Sixteen" lineup was greener than usual-only eight of the teams had been in the finals before. But the talent was topflight. Two teams had gone through the season undefeated, and most had lost no more than two of their scheduled 21 games. College scouts were there to check out players such as Rae White, a forward from Southeast Polk High in suburban Des Moines, who averaged 38 points per game, and 6-ft. 4-in. Marlena Mossbarger from Kennedy High in Cedar Rapids...