Word: taller
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...wood, a 19-year-old sophomore from the University of Detroit. The other starters included a 24-year-old Army captain and a 28-year-old rubber-company foreman. And with only three weeks to prepare for the Olympics, the makeshift U.S. squad hardly seemed a match for taller Russian and Yugoslavian teams that had been playing together ever since the 1964 Olympics...
...rays of the rising sun. Leaving a psychedelic trail of ionized gases, it streaked away. Barely 10 minutes had elapsed after lift-off when it was announced that Poseidon had sped to a perfect splashdown, 1,150 miles away down the Atlantic missile range. Then came the taller, three-stage Minuteman III. Launched at 4:30 p.m. in a geyser of orange flame, it raced 5,000 miles to another brilliant on-target splashdown near Ascension Island in the South Atlantic...
Right on the Record. Winning obviously agrees with Dark Mirage. Since she launched her streak last spring, she has grown 3 in. taller, to 5 ft. 1 in. (15.1 hands), and put on 120 lbs., to 850. She is still puny compared with other thoroughbreds, who average about 1,100 lbs. Her small stature and undistinguished ancestry prompt some horsemen to label her a freak. "I can't find anything right about her except her record," says Trainer Buddy Raines. "It seems impossible that she has so much quality on the racetrack. If I had my pick...
...cheaper office rentals and better telephone service. Over the past five years, the Ayalas have attracted such leading firms as the beer-making San Miguel Corp., Colgate-Palmolive, IBM and Eastman Kodak. As a result, Makati's Ayala Avenue is sprouting a forest of office buildings that are taller and more modern than most commercial buildings in downtown Manila...
Ahmanson interests seem sure to grow inexorably broader-and taller. Next month, on a 3.9-acre Wilshire Boulevard site, work will start on a Home-financed, Edward Durell Stone-designed office-building complex featuring a 40-story tower. Scheduled for completion in 1970 at a cost of $75 million, the project is called, naturally enough, Ahmanson Center...