Word: stretches
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...surface velocity of the rotating earth is much swifter than at Cape Kennedy, which is at latitude 28° north. Thus, a rocket fired in Guiana can lift about 24% more payload with the same thrust than one fired at Cape Kennedy. Moreover, Guiana has a 120° stretch of open water north and east of it that is ideal for polar-orbit launchings. As a result, France, forced out of its former space station in the Algerian desert two years ago, is bringing French Guiana into the space age with a $102 million investment in launch pads and their...
...Westlake, Calif., a new community developed by the American-Hawaiian Steamship Co. 38 miles northwest of Los Angeles, home prices stretch from $28,000 to $75,000, and fewer than 20% of the people who work in Westlake's industrial park, mostly at skilled or white-collar jobs, live in town. Columbia, Md., a new town developed by the Rouse Co. midway between Bal timore and Washington, has succeeded in attracting blacks, who constitute 15% of the city's current population of 4,000; but its architecture tends to be pedestrian, and most residents still work elsewhere. Reston...
...Harvard supporters sensed victory, but Brown sophomore guard, Russ Tyler, sank two jump shots in a row to tie the game. Then Purvis added a set shot and a free throw to stretch the Brown lead to three points...
...urban renewal have doomed this curious form of nonsociety to extinction. From a Depression-era high of more than 1,000,-000, the national census of rootless men (and women) has dropped to a scant 100,000, most of them over 50. On the Bowery, a squalid mile-long stretch on Manhattan's Lower East Side bordered by wine dispensaries, flop houses and rescue missions, annual head counts of the residents have disclosed a steady attrition. Between 1949 and 1967, the population of the Bowery fell from 13,675 to 4,851. Every year the population declines another...
...sequence follows. The dancers grow angrier, more passionate. The music begins to sound like the fire of machine gun bullets, interspersed with air raid sirens. The slides and music literally assault your senses, but they assault the dancers as well; at the end of the movement, when the dancers stretch their agonized hands high in the air, their shadows projected 20 feet high on the screen behind them, they are not groping only for themselves...