Word: tow
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Happy Birthday. The week's last party was for some 1,300 House and Senate staffers, and when Johnson emerged to greet them, he had in tow Henry Cabot Lodge, who had been called in to consult with the President about Viet Nam. Johnson praised the bipartisanship of congressional leaders and men like Lodge ("He's here for just one reason, and it isn't because he opposed me for the vice-presidency in 1960"), and reported that the 75 bills, 300 reports and 200 messages that he had sent to Congress since Jan. 4 had been...
...mirage? There in the sand-blown, baking desert near Colton, Calif., it looked as though people were splashing and slaloming around on water skis without a motorboat to tow them. But when some 8,000 people drove up to stop and stare one day last week, they saw that it was really happening...
...acre park with a swimming pool, paddle-tennis courts, refreshment stands and palm trees. The 250-ft.-wide ski course runs beneath four towers that support an overhead steel cable, powered by a 74-h.p. diesel engine. At ten-second intervals it carries 77-ft. tow ropes past a carpeted dock, from which the skier launches himself to whoosh around the rectangular track at about 25 m.p.h. (for experts the speed can be upped to 38 m.p.h...
...shot 66 ft. 10½ in., hurling the discus 192 ft. 3 in., running 100 yds. in 10.3 sec. More than 100 colleges made him offers, and the University of Southern California assigned Old Grads Long and Parry O'Brien to take the prize prospect in tow. They proudly showed him the library, the dormitories, all those long-legged girls. Pity. They should have spent more time showing...
Under heavy attack from the City Council all year, Rudolph appeared before the nine-man body and received more of the same yesterday. Councillor Andrew T. Trodden said that things which could easily he corrected-like one way streets that suddenly become tow way streets and stoplights that go off after midnight-caused many of the accidents...