Word: tem
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...into 0-to 5-volt signals, Astrolog will record them on a tape that will be fed into a computer. From the data, the computer will define such indi cations of pilot performance as bank angles, speed in turbulence, sink rate and even use of the public-address sys tem. It will also spot any unsafe maneuvers or actions and print out "exception reports" that the airline will use to help the pilot correct his techniques...
...real battleground for sales in 1968 is going to be in the intermediate field." Lincoln-Mercury is betting on its Montego line, of which two models resemble the popular Cougar. General Motors is also pushing the intermediates, featuring minor changes suggested by success of the 1966 Toronado. The 1968 Tem pest, for example, has an abbreviated rear and an elongated front, giving it the look of a chunky road racer. For its own sporty look, Buick has taken its Skylark and gone back to a sweeping, chrome-lined silhouette that became popular ten years...
...demise came in 1925, when the New York Life Insurance Co. decided to build a skyscraper on the site. As the last boxing event got under way the night of May 5, 1925, the gravelly voice of Announcer Joe Humphreys boomed over the crowd: "Farewell to thee, O Tem ple of Fistiana, farewell to thee, O sweet Miss Diana." He climbed from the ring, sobbing. Next day Lawyer-Statesman Elihu Root and Fight Promoter Tex Rickard stood together bare headed in the rain as a derrick lowered Diana from her pedestal...
...mainly because neither students nor faculty take warmly to books during the hot sticky summers. Lack of summer enrollment was blamed largely for the University of Pittsburgh's financial crisis, and professorial discontent with the summer work led to abandonment of the trimester by the state university sys tem in Florida. Yet this week some 800 students perspiring over final examinations at Wisconsin's Beloit Col lege testify to the fact that the trimester can live up to its early promises...
...virtue of the congressional seniority system, the hardworking, clear-thinking Arizonan-who recently celebrated his 55th anniversary* on Capitol Hill-occupies three of the most venerable and strategic posts in the Senate: president pro tem, chairman of the Appropriations Committee, dispenser of Democratic patronage. With little more than a nod, he can-and often has-secured federal funds and projects for the arid sections of the West, particularly his own state. Notes one Senate veteran: "He can do more for Arizona in three months than his successor will be able to do in ten years...