Word: spans
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...wing surface was not broad enough; the four jet engines were set too far for ward, thereby creating exhausts that swept over the tail structure and would shorten its life span; the fuselage needed to be longer to increase passenger capacity. Working against the deadline, Boeing engineers went back to the drafting board. Last week the result of their work was publicly shown: a redesigned $2,000,000 plywood, steel and aluminum mock-up of the 1,850-m.p.h. SST. Boeing's SST, to say the least, is differ ent. Now 306 ft. long, or twice the length...
...this is the long-range outlook which sees Harvard as an underdog for the rest of the season, in the Ivy League it once owned. Bruce Munro's Crimson teams have won or tied for six titles in the League's eleven years, and the composite standings for this span still shows Harvard planted firmly...
...Pittsburgh which will fit these criteria. Parts of the centers can be built as air right structures over highways or rivers or as bridges across canyons. And such building can and should be done without marring the natural beauty of Pittsburgh's rivers, hills, and valleys. Structures which span valleys can also bring together neighborhoods long isolated by topography. Steep hills need not be barriers either to construction or to access routes. Hills and valleys can become architectural assets in planning exciting urban centers for Pittsburgh
Brooding Evil, Deep Wisdom. To celebrate his permanent feast of images, ranging over a span of 40 years, a display of 337 of his photographs- opened last week in the Exhibition Center of the Time and Life Building in Manhattan. Derived in large part from his 1,728 assignments for LIFE in the past 30 years, the record astonishes both by its variety-How could any man have been in so many crucial places?-and its perception. The marvel is finally not the Leica that Eisenstaedt used, but the personal eye behind the shutter...
...been to produce thin supplementary books that fill the gaps in Negro history, ranging back to the fairly rich empires of 8th century Africa. They show the degradation of U.S. slavery, profile such authentic but little-known Negro leaders as Suffragette Mary Church Terrell and Abolitionist Frederick Douglass. They span the terrors of lynch law and report on today's freedom marchers. Best of the supplements are Doubleday's Zenith Books, written in a sixth-grade vocabulary but with an adult perspective...