Word: spans
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...years No. 8 Schleichstrasse was like any other house on the suburban Bonn hillside called Venusberg. Everything was always spick-and-span, and from the kitchen came the odor of Bavarian stew. No. 8's occupant, a chubby, rumpled man with pink bulging face and bulging briefcase, went to the office each morning, returned each evening, like so many hard-working businessmen of the district...
...ports. It will take 470 vessels with average capacities of 8,500 long tons apiece to ship it to Communist ports. By reducing the 1,048,000,000-bushel U.S. wheat surplus, the deal will cut storage charges to U.S. taxpayers by $200 million over a five-year span...
...this freedom, this America, is a fragile moment in history's long span. Freedom always has been. It has not been the rule of mankind. It has been the exception. Today it remains the exception. And today it remains the issue. Controls, coercion, compromise with tyranny are the marks of the New Frontier; big words and petty deeds are its adjectives and verbs; promises are its substitutes for performance, and its vision of issue is no wider than its view of electoral expediency...
Wednesday, October 9 CHRONICLE (CBS, 7:30-8 p.m.).* Interviews with three octogenarians whose recollections cover a large span of American history...
...bull's-eye landings in impact areas at the heavily instrumented White Sands Missile Range in New Mexico, some 350 miles to the southeast. Later this month, the Air Force will launch the first of some 80 Athena rockets from Green River, Utah, to White Sands, a span of almost 500 miles. The Athenas, toting experimental nose cones are expected to provide valuable data on re-entry problems...