Word: steams
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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According to an emergency plan, Greely, a veteran officer of the U.S. Signal Corps who had proved his endurance and skill during service in the American West, headed south in a steam launch and three smaller boats. The launch got wedged in the ice, two of the boats were abandoned, and the desperate men barely made it across the ice pack to Cape Sabine as winter and the polar night descended. In the minds of all were the fates of two previous expeditions-those of U.S. Lieut. Commander George De Long and Britain's Sir John Franklin, which ended...
Crimson swimmers turned the steam on Princeton Saturday and defeated the Tigers 55 to 40 in their own waters. A grounded flight, two bus breakdowns, and a ten-hour trip did not seem to upset the varsity, who methodically snapped Princeton's four-meet streak in the Eastern Collegiate Swimming League...
...Portugal itself, aging but agile Dictator António Salazar was having trouble with his own aftermath of the Santa Maria. He decided to allow people to let off a little steam. Newspaper editors in Oporto and Lisbon were given permission to publish an open letter addressed to the government by three opposition leaders. "Speaking in the name of many we know," the petition asked for "a government capable of inspiring the confidence of the country," and demanded "restitution to the Portuguese of their fundamental liberties-those same liberties which the constitution promises and which have become, to our regret...
Identical Bids. The Government said that the conspiracy had been going on for nearly 25 years. The companies involved might have got away with it even longer had not TVA-which bought from the companies such equipment as the $16.1 million, 500,000-kw. turbogenerator for its Widows Creek steam plant in Alabama-become aroused over a succession of almost identical bids. It tipped off the Justice Department, which began digging into the conspiracy in 1959 under the direction of Republican Trustbuster Robert Bicks (who recently entered private law practice). Often the Government has a hard time gathering evidence...
...Gains. The best of Tanny's gyms are modern, clean, superbly equipped, often house under one roof the gym, a swimming pool, steam rooms, an ultraviolet tanning room, even a private bowling alley. Moreover, Tanny's tactics have paid off. Since he gave up teaching junior high school and opened his first gym in 1935. sales have developed to $24 million a year. Tanny owns all his 80 clubs outright, together with six companies that service them with everything from exercise machines to health foods. He opened 35 new gyms last year at a cost...