Word: tled
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Tilt Toward Britain. Still unset tled is the question of who will make the powerful fanjet engines for the DC-10. American Airlines engineers lean toward the British Rolls-Royce RB.211, partly because they expect it to be cheaper as well as quieter than any comparable (33,000-40,000 Ibs. thrust) U.S.-built power plant. The potential drain on the U.S. balance of payments may tip the decision in favor of General Electric's CF6, which was derived from G.E.'s TF39, designed for Lockheed's far larger C-5A military transport...
...Dinh Nhu, sister-in-law of assassinated President Diem, who just before the 1963 coup accompanied her mother on that famous U.S. speaking tour during which she captured her own share of attention with her fetching ao-dai, later moved to Paris while Mme. Nhu set tled in Italy; of injuries in an auto collision; in Longjumeau, France...
While Defense Secretary Robert S. McNamara was in Texas last week conferring with Lyndon Johnson on Viet Nam, Hubert Humphrey was laying a Veterans' Day wreath at Arlington Na tional Cemetery. While McNamara bat tled the aluminum industry in private, pleaded the Administration's case in public and announced the Government's "victory" (see U.S. BUSINESS), the Commerce and Treasury Secretaries - the officials most directly concerned - were little seen or heard...
...slowly fills, Lake Nasser will obliterate the last traces of one of his tory's richest archaeological deposits. Bone-dry Nubia, the "land of gold," over which black men and white bat tled for 50 centuries, will be drowned. Though the Nubians themselves once ruled all Egypt (750-656 B.C.), they were frequently the victims of invaders. The Pharaoh Snefru 4,600 years ago reported "Nubia hacked to pieces: 7,000 men and women, 200,000 cattle and sheep led away." Greeks, Romans, Arabs, Turks and British followed, leaving hundreds of monuments, temples, fortresses, churches and works...
...miles across the Pacific-on a raft, no less. That was even better than the Kon-Tiki expedition. "It was a nightmare, and a beautiful dream," said Willis, and decided to do it again some time. Last week it was the natives of Apia, Western Samoa, who were star tled, as in over the reef came Willis, two cats and raft, four months and 6,500 miles out of Callao, Peru. "I wanted to show that a 70-year-old could do what men years younger would never dream of trying and couldn't dp anyway," said...