Word: suddenly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...snowmobile trip to the North Pole, pulling equipment and supplies along on sleds behind them. There is a practical side to snowmobiles too. In the Western states and New England they are replacing snowshoes for telephone linemen, country doctors, trappers, game wardens, farmers and oilmen. But for all their sudden popularity, snowmobiles have their foes. Police are worried because teen-agers ride them out to vandalize remote, untenanted cottages. On the highways, their low profile makes them hard to see, easy to hit. Flights from three Maine airports have been disrupted in the last month by snowmobilers who found...
...left open, of course, because the voice belongs to Michael Caine, and every word he speaks these days is received as attentively as a ransom note. In the year and a half since his role as the bemused, workaday spy Harry Palmer in The Ipcress File shot him to sudden international splendor, Caine, 33, has appeared in four films, of which three-Funeral in Berlin, Alfie and Gambit-are among the nation's top box-office draws. A fifth picture, Hurry Sundown, with Jane Fonda, opened last week in Los Angeles. Now in Finland filming another Harry Palmer adventure...
...Point. As to speculation about the fire's cause, it was reported that four days before the test, there was an apparent short circuit in the ship's system. And moments before the fire burst out in the cockpit, the telemetry readings in Houston reportedly showed a sudden jump in battery temperatures. The obvious possibility was that the spacecraft's circuits may have been overloaded, triggering a spark somewhere and maybe even setting fire to the supposedly heat-resistant wire insulation. But Seamans said that "up to this time," it did not seem that the power source...
...Suddenly Randy Matson, the King of the Whales, had a real challenger and Neal Steinhauer was a celebrity. It didn't seem all that sudden to Steinhauer. The son of a sawmill superintendent in Eugene, Ore., he has been putting the shot since he was a junior in high school, stood 6 ft. 2 in. tall and weighed 150 lbs. He is now 6 ft. 5 in., weighs 265 lbs., boasts a 52-in. chest and 18½-in. biceps. Wearing an old Oregon football jersey with No. 70 on the back, he works out with weights for three...
Olin Mathieson's management will remain very much in the hands of President and Chief Executive Gordon Grand Jr., 49. After the sudden death last October of Olin Chairman N. Harvey Collisson, Grand assumed that role in addition to his own duties, but will now be able to relinquish the chair. Since he took charge 22 months ago, Grand has pulled Olin Mathieson's disparate operations together into five groups, expanded its operations in 70 countries. At the time he assumed power, he forecast that the corporation would exceed $1 billion in annual sales by 1967; last week...