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Word: weathers (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Olympic trials consist of three races. The first, a 15-kilometer race, was held yesterday in sub-zero weather at Putney. Another race over a 30-kilometer course is scheduled for tomorrow. The final race will be held next week at Lake Placid...

Author: By Robin Barnes, | Title: Harvard Skiers Are Invited to Olympic Tryouts | 1/10/1968 | See Source »

...American 35% to $23.88 and Northwest 36% to $86.50. TWA shares dropped from $90.75 to $50.63 for a 44.2% loss and Braniff's sank 44.8% from $84.25 to $46.50. Despite their soaring prospects for the long run, the airlines are in a spell of turbulent financial weather...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Airlines: Straining to Pay for Tomorrow | 1/5/1968 | See Source »

...housed in three closely guarded, windowless buildings on the Tan Son Nhut airbase. He arrives at 7 a.m. every day to read the reports on the previous night's raids, then assembles his staff in his war conference room to plot the day's operations, using weather and intelligence reports and checking reconnaissance slides projected on an 8-ft.-by-10-ft. screen. He has authority on his own to strike at some 200 existing targets in North Viet Nam. When his intelligence turns up new ones he would like to hit, the request goes up the chain...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World: Rolling the Thunder | 12/29/1967 | See Source »

...center, he is surrounded by 23 maps and charts that rise seven feet from the floor. Any area Momyer is interested in lights up when he presses on the glass face of the map. On each is charted in grease pencil the flight path of the attackers, any weather changes, and encounters with MIGs or missiles. If he wants to alter something, Momyer can be in touch within 60 seconds with any pilot flying anywhere in Southeast Asia...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World: Rolling the Thunder | 12/29/1967 | See Source »

Haider today is a combination of grit and polish. He hates cold weather from his tours in Canada, speaks acceptable Spanish from his connections with Latin America. He enjoys opera, frequently attends performances in New York with U.S. Steel Chairman Roger Blough, another buff. On business trips, he likes to get up a Cajun card game known as Bouree, a variety of pitch in which pots get increasingly more costly. He seldom loses at Bouree, but he can afford it if he does. For running its global empire, Jersey Standard last year paid him $395,833 in salary and bonuses...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Industry: The Long-Term View From the 29th Floor | 12/29/1967 | See Source »

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