Word: size
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Island, 2,000 miles off the coast of Chile in the Pacific, have held an abiding fascination for generations of archaeologists. Mazière has new theories about the men who produced them and why, though the impact of his research is somewhat blunted by the fact that boulder-size chunks were lifted from previous work by an obscure Capuchin priest named Father Sebastian Englert...
...currently directing a $174,000 Ford Foundation-financed study of California to examine the effects of population growth on urban transportation, pollution, public health and welfare, natural resources and law enforcement. "If we can't lick the population problem," he says, "we'll have to increase the size of the planet or put people in eight-by-eight-foot cells and feed them algae. I'm not proposing these things, but people have to face up to the necessity of birth control if they want freedom to move around, to be healthy, to have a balanced diet...
...troop withdrawals already seems imminent, the American garrisons on the periphery of East Asia could be substantially reduced over the next few years. Here Nixon's goals abroad dovetail with his attempt at home to check federal spending. The Pentagon is seeking ways to reduce the overall size of the armed services. Large overseas ground forces seem the likeliest target for either disbandment or withdrawal to bases like Hawaii...
...forth a thunderous THWACK! and SOCKO! In person, the seamed, leathery face seems an extension of his saddle. A handshake lets the visitor know how a baseball feels when it is swallowed by Frank Howard's glove. True, the unwigged forehead goes clear back to his crown, but the size-18 neck defies collars, and at 6 ft. 4 in. and 244 Ibs., Wayne remains gristly underneath the adipose. Even so, Wayne is a bit like Clark Kent waiting to change into Superman. The real man seems to be the one onscreen. Up there, equipped with...
...mixed a homebrew "friction proofing" in a 55-gal. drum and sold bottles of it to local garages. Sales last year were $14 million. The Bardahl Mfg. Corp. markets 18 products in 82 countries. Its private owners do not disclose sales figures, but the company is probably third in size, behind STP and Wynn...