Word: spans
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Dartmouth's defense limited the Cross to 75 yards in the first half; weak-passing quarterback Gene Ryzewicz completed 9 of 13 throws in the same span; and sophomore Bob Mlakar emerged as more than just a name with a 50-yard scoring scamper. The only Green weakness was punting: five kicks averaged a feeble 17 yards...
...play would have been the fourth in O'Neill's aborted nine-play cycle, A Tale of Possessors Self-Dispossessed, an epic intended to span two centuries of U.S. life in one family's history. Mansions begins where A Touch of the Poet leaves off, in the Massachusetts of the 1830s. The hero of the earlier play, a swaggering, staggering Irish tavern keeper named Con Melody, has just died, having spent most of his life in brash discord with the Yankee landowning gentry. But before he dies, Con has a vision of personal revenge and future glory...
...romance had basic troubles right from the start, one of them being L.B.J.'s habit of calling him "Charlie." But for the surprising span of 25 months, in Washington and Acapulco, New York and Hollywood, Lynda Bird Johnson, 23, and Hollywood Climber George Hamilton, 28, were a more or less serious item on the nation's front pages...
...from $766 million in 1959 to $2.1 billion last year, earnings from $29 million to $90 million; in the first six months of 1967, sales have gone up another 5%. The company has set new sales and earnings records for a phenomenal 32 consecutive quarters. Its assets over that span have almost tripled, to over $2.3 billion. ITT's directors last month rewarded Geneen with a contract extending his term as president to the mandatory retirement-age of 65-still eight years...
...mile Long Bien Bridge. Less than two miles from downtown Hanoi, the French-built bridge carries all the rail and road traffic between the North Vietnamese capital and China. U.S. Thunderchief and Phantom fighter-bombers scored four direct hits on the steel structure, sent a 300-ft. center span-splashing into the Red River. Elsewhere over the North, Air Force fighter-bombers pounded rail yards, and Navy pilots shot down...