Word: wide
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Despite such conspicuous harbingers, the President once again yielded to the mysterious Johnsonian compulsion to deny a matter of wide public knowledge...
...WIDE WORLD OF SPORTS (ABC, 5-6:30 p.m.). The National "500" Stock Car championship, Charlotte, N.C.; the World Lumberjack championships, Hayward, Wis.; and a preview of the Nov. 14 Clay-Williams heavyweight championship fight in Houston...
...area's power companies have belatedly mounted a massive effort to overhaul, augment and modernize equipment and procedures. At the On tario Hydro-Electric Power Commission's Sir Adam Beck Plant No. 2, where the region-wide short circuit originated in an overloaded relay fuse, more relays have been added to in crease the system's safety margin. To prevent the area's vast, interlocking power grid from being pulled down again, newly designed switches have been installed in northwestern New York State so that the southern part of the system can automatically cut itself...
...Federal Trade Commission has begun an investigation of the role stamps - as well as their trickier cousins, prizegiving promotional games - play in food prices. California's Governor Pat Brown last week promised to help the F.T.C. by sending along a new state wide study that, he says, indicates that the gimmicks cost shoppers "at least a week's groceries a year." New York City Commissioner of Markets Sam uel Kearing Jr. called for an end to stamps altogether; this, he claimed, would reduce grocery bills by 2% to 4% . Esther Petersen, President John son's special assistant...
...Another is a lady sociologist (Diane McBain) who wants to interview him in depth, just to prove that her "analysis of the mating motive is right on the button." Still another (Deborah Walley) is a lady instrumentalist who offers him a mean rhythm section and something that in her wide Midwestern accent sounds like "goremay...