Word: spans
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Pediatricians argue that growing bones may be seriously harmed by strenuous activity, and that children's exercise should be widely varied and lightly disciplined, because their interest span is short. Organized leagues, they complain, do not classify youngsters by physical maturity but by chronological age-a notoriously misleading guide for grouping growing children. "Children are not little men," said one doctor last week. "Cutting down the field and changing the rules doesn't make football a kid's sport...
...dart-shaped B70 is an airman's vision: designed to fly three times faster than sound and 15 miles above the ground, it could serve as a nuclear bomber, a satellite launcher, or a six-jet civilian transport that could span the Atlantic in an hour. But what would be its strategic value in the missile age? "Doubtful," answered Old Infantryman Dwight Eisenhower last January, as he chopped the B-70's development budget for fiscal 1961 from a requested $385 million to only $75 million, barely enough to build two stripped-down flying shells. Last week, just...
...influenza and three days later Schiele succumbed. He was then twenty-eight years old and unknown beyond the borders of Austria. But few great men are recognized during their life and perhaps the forty-two years between Schiele's death and his international recognition is not too great a span...
...molecules get hot enough and move fast enough to reach escape velocity and leave the earth entirely. Moscow's Professor Shklovsky believes that enough hydrogen has escaped in this way to lower the level of the earth's oceans by several yards during the long span of geological time...
...open their campaign early-next week with ceremonies at Baltimore's Friendship Airport. Then they will part company, with Lodge heading for Ohio, Pennsylvania, Illinois and Florida, Nixon setting out on a whirlwind tour that will take him to 18 cities and towns in 14 states over a span of six days. That schedule is typical of the grueling pace that Nixon has set for himself from the time he gets out of Walter Reed right down to election...