Word: spans
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...chest and around the windpipe. One-fourth of the dwarf children die of such defects within two weeks of birth. Another fourth of the dwarf babies have less severe heart defects, and survive. Half of them appear to have no heart defects and may achieve a near-normal life span. One such man is now 58. He is one of eight living adult dwarfs (20 or over), and there are 16 children and teenagers...
...Seating, whose sales this year will reach $50 million. Like many of its competitors, the firm tries to pioneer new trends. American Seating maintains elaborate research facilities where desks are tested by being banged with weights, chairs tilted back endlessly on two legs (40,000 tilts exhaust the life span of the average school-desk chair). Its research star is "Squirming Irma," a manikin that swivel-hips for thousands of hours in its seat in imitation of a fidgeting teenager...
...Millenniums Under One Roof "The last 6,000 years of human history are most interesting," Alfred North Whitehead once remarked to a dinner companion. If the philosopher could have attended the current exhibition at the National Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C., he would have had to increase his span by a millennium. The Archaeological Museum of Teheran and a major private Iranian collection have been spilled open to provide the U.S. with a show of 735 objects, many of them only recently discovered, from 7,000 years of Persian...
...pioneers who span commercial aviation from jenny to jet are giving way to a new generation of executives. In the last year, the presidents of three major U.S. airlines have stepped either up or out to make way for new men. United's Pat Patterson moved up to chairman, and so did American's C. R. Smith; Malcolm Maclntyre left Eastern. Last week one of the greatest pioneers of them all relinquished some of the controls-although, like Smith and Patterson, he retained the post of chief executive. Just turned 65, Juan Terry Trippe gave up the presidency...
...study by Thorndike and Muscatine indicates that professionals are very limited in their span of knowledge...