Word: uppers
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...where was the man? The world's most valuable twin-double ticket was finally claimed, not on the hour but nearly two days later, and not by the perennial underdog but by a platoon of upper-income New Jersey businessmen who arrived at the track in a long green Cadillac and left behind them the dis tinct impression of a gamble involving neither luck nor love of the game but of a cold-eyed investment by men who know their way around...
Most of the students intend to get degrees; of those who do, more than half go on to graduate school, often in the face of severe obstacles. A house wife from Leonia, N.J., spent 800 hours commuting by bus to Morningside Heights in upper Manhattan for four years to get a degree enabling her to continue graduate studies at Columbia's Russian Institute. Even the jet set touches down at G.S. Ex-Actress Jo Ann Bliss, wife of the president of the Metropolitan Opera Association, expects a degree in art history next year. Top student in the class...
...rate of economic change increases, fertility control becomes the habit of the entire population rather just of the upper ranks of society, he said...
...Crimson got a break on a Princeton penalty, however, and Tink Gunnoe rammed a shot into the upper left corner at 10:45. Wood scored after taking another Ames pass at 13:09, but before the cheering had died Pete Porietis scooped the face-off and passed to Moore for Princeton's sixth goal...
...major survival aid proved to be a new plastic air bag tucked into the rear of one seat; inflated before impact, it spread backward in two sections-one over the feet and legs of the dummy in the seat behind, the other over its upper body-and cushioned that "passenger" against impact injury. Such bags, which can be inflated by a switch in the pilot's compartment when a crash seems probable, are the first devices for individual passenger safety under serious consideration by the industry since the safety belt...