Word: spans
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...world as it looks from the rocket that is heading toward Mars. It is like a child's globe, hanging in space, the continents stuck to its side like colored maps. We are all fellow passengers on a dot of earth. And each of us, in the span of time, has really only a moment among our companions. How incredible it is that in this fragile existence we should hate and destroy one another. There is world enough for all to seek their happiness in their own way." Often, with inexplicable timing, Johnson allowed a benign smile to crease...
Worldly, interesting, informed and even intellectual when barely out of childhood, young kids all over the U.S. are pulling down the entry age to teendom. Even as they do, the affluent society is pushing up the average age of school leaving. The lengthened span of teen-agery-what Johns Hopkins Sociologist James Coleman calls "the coming earlier to social maturity while having to spend a considerably longer period in a dependent role"-is further fattened by a growth rate of teen-age population that is four times as high as the U.S. average. The country now has 24 million people...
...means Village of Villages), a tiny cluster of about 100 shacks on stilts noted more for the rice whisky its inhabitants produce than for anything else. But the Ban Ban area is dotted with camouflaged antiaircraft batteries designed to protect the key bridge near by, a 50-yd.-long span across the Nam Mat River used by the Reds in their supply line from North Viet Nam. When the Communists shot down a camera-carrying jet, the U.S. started sending armed escorts. When one of the latter was downed, U.S. fighter-bombers clobbered the offending Palhet Lao guns. Recon sweeps...
...short-to medium-range jets for the next decade, it expects to win at least 400 orders for the DC-9-a package that would amount to $1.2 billion for the company. The DC-9 is one-third the size of the DC-8, has a wing span 8 ft. less than the ancient DC-3. It can carry from 56 to 90 passengers, depending on the seating arrangement, and can fly at speeds of 560 m.p.h. More important, it can land and take off at nearly any commercial airport now serviced by ordinary piston planes. The advent...
...that brief span, he: > Brought to the office of the presidency a concept not favored by his immediate predecessors, who, except for Dwight Eisenhower, felt that a "strong" President had to fight with Congress. Always mindful of the presidency's great power, Johnson put into effect a new relationship with the other "coequal" branches of Government, thus achieving the truest partnership with Congress-in the checks-and-balances sense envisaged by the Constitution-in well over a century. His remarkable legislative record was crowned by the historic Civil Rights...