Word: spans
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...first stop was Houston, where the President toured the Manned Spacecraft Center. Next, he dropped in at Beaumont, Texas, for a fund-raising dinner, then on to Marietta, Ga., to watch Lockheed Aircraft roll out the world's largest aircraft, the C-5A Galaxy flying freighter (wing span: 223 ft., height: 65 ft.), which can lift 21 times more cargo than any current U.S. air transport. "This would sure carry a lot of hay," marveled Johnson after touring the C-5A's barnlike cargo hold. Then he flew to Ramey Air Force Base in Puerto Rico...
...only 100 choice objects. The exterior walls of the museum will be solid for security reasons, but Kahn has made sure the interior will be light and airy. He picked the barrel-vault roof not for its classical associations but because of its structural strength. Such vaults can easily span 100 ft. between supports, allowing museum spaces to be open and flexible...
...predawn bit of derring-do, Communist frogmen swam down the Perfume and neatly dropped the center span of the last remaining bridge over the river, despite the fact that the allies held both bridgeheads. Boats thus became the main means of evacuation and supply, and each boat ran a gauntlet of NVA sniper fire. But at week's end the NVA pockets of resistance were slowly shrinking, and all of the city except a part of the Citadel had been seized by the allies...
...front offices change with nervous rapidity. But now not even a white tornado could add much pace to the turnovers within the industry. Eager to cash in on the so-called "new creativity," new agencies have been springing up with all the speed and spiel-and sometimes the life-span-of TV spot commercials. In the wake of the new demand for ever more artful, imaginative copy, "creative" men are climbing into the top salary brackets. "The lunatics have taken over the asylum," says Jack Roberts, 48, co-founder of Los Angeles' Carson-Roberts Inc. As a creative copywriter...
...best designs of modern times, sold only 5,300 after Edsel Ford introduced it in 1939. The Mark II, which featured simply sculptured "slab sides" instead of the chrome that was the rage in Detroit in 1956, sold 3,000 over a two-year life span. But Ford estimates that 15,000 Mark IIIs will be sold in the car's first year. Beautiful people have begun to buy beautiful Mark IIIs even before the formal introduction. Entertainer Sammy Davis Jr. ordered one for April delivery in London and the Shah of Iran reportedly has also bought a Mark...