Word: spans
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...necessity, Amsterdam has learned to work 72 hours without sleep. Last summer he drove across the U.S. with out stopping to rest- twice. He is a part-time poet, playwright and novelist; he is equally versed in poker, tennis, two foreign languages (French, Span ish), and he has mastered the arts of advocacy from the Supreme Court to the police courts of Mississippi. "He is," says one federal judge, "the most dazzling person I have ever met in my entire life...
...youth market is reflected in the recent successes of surfboards, pancake houses, false eyelashes, and the Super-Ball, which can bounce for a full minute before stopping. At the other extreme, prospects are healthy for businesses that sell goods and services primarily to people over 65. The lengthening life span and the increase in social-security payments-plus the passage of medicare -will heighten demand for hospital supplies, medical equipment, nursing homes and retirement villages...
...danger of obscuring was the achievement brought off by Brown and the trustees while together in harness. Sprawling Los Angeles has long suffered from the guilt of cultural deprivation; it felt overshadowed by San Francisco, which boasts an opera house and no fewer than three museums. But in the span of seven years, a surge of civic unity has given Los Angeles a new $33.5 million music center and, 61 miles away, the terraced pavilions of the $12 million art museum. Los Angeles has become the U.S.'s second art capital, no longer threatened with losing its collections...
Today, throughout the Western world and especially in America, man's attitude toward the mystery of death is making a break with human tradition. Medically, death seems to be constantly receding, and some scientists think seriously about an almost indefinite life span for man (the late Norbert Wiener, for one, was horrified at the prospect of the overcrowded world this might bring about). Socially, the rites of death and mourning, except at those rare times when whole nations hear the muffled drums for a Churchill or a Kennedy, are growing more impersonal and grudging. Religiously, the promise of immortality...
...Crimson to face Princeton's single wing. For three straight years, Princeton has come into the Harvard game unbeaten--and lost two of those three meetings. Over the last seven years, the Crimson has yielded only seven touchdowns against the Tigers, and has won four games in that span...