Word: wide
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...WIDE WORLD OF SPORTS (ABC, 2:30-4 p.m.). The America's Cup Races, live from Newport, R.I., along with live coverage (via satellite) of the Karl Mildenberger-Oscar Bonavena heavyweight bout from Frankfurt...
...black Rolls-Royce eased to a halt outside the California State Capitol in Sacramento, and out stepped the legislature's guest of honor-dressed in a tattered coat, baggy pants with wide suspenders, and a long, lachrymose mouth curved like an inverted halfmoon. The legislature was honoring him with a special resolution offering "warm gratitude for the pleasure he has brought to the world." Replied Clown Emmett Kelly, 68: "I wish I could hug and kiss every woman here and shake hands with every man." Later, Kelly met his match in another seasoned performer, Governor Ronald Reagan, and, after...
Some space observers believe that the tests relate to an offensive orbiting weapons system. Other scientists have noted that the payloads seem to be brought back to earth within a closely limited area some 600 miles northeast of Tyuratam, where radar and other sensor devices can obtain a wide variety of re-entry data. Pursuing this line of reasoning, their best guess is that the Russian test flights are part of an effort to develop either maneuverable warheads that can avoid anti-ballistic missiles or manned vehicles that can withstand the 23,400 m.p.h. re-entry speeds of a lunar...
Shortly before, he picked up the Valdosta (Ga.) Times. This brings his world wide total to 160 papers, of which nearly 50 are in the U.S. - the largest number ever owned by a noncitizen and the largest number currently owned by any U.S. publisher...
N.A.R.'s fiction roams imaginatively over a wide landscape-from a Kafkaesque account of a prisoner-of-war interrogation in Viet Nam by Victor Kolpacoff to a bittersweet rendition of a mother's day in Washington Square Park by Grace Paley ("Kitty has three green-eyed daughters and they aren't that great . . . they are no worse than the average gifted, sensitive child of a wholehearted mother and half-a-dozen transient fathers...