Word: wide
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Doxiadis projects it, Greater Detroit will eventually cover 23,000 sq. mi., stretch 150 miles long, 220 miles wide, and include 37 counties: 25 in Michigan, nine in Ohio and three in Canada. The area will have a population of 15 million centered in the Motor City but with secondary concentrations at Port Huron, 55 miles to the northeast, Toledo, Flint, Saginaw, Grand Rapids, Lansing and Ann Arbor...
Coming Competition. In the years before Newsday, the Captain always showed a newsman's keen interest in a wide range of activities. He spent a few youthful years in South America learning the mining business, the source of the Guggenheim family's great wealth. Then he became fascinated with flying, served as a naval aviator in both World Wars. In 1929 he took a plunge into diplomacy by becoming Ambassador to Cuba, spent much of his time prevailing on Dictator Machado y Morales not to murder too many of his political opponents. He has married three times, bred...
...that private industry normally invests in capital improvements. One other result of the deflationary policy has been a jump in unemployment, which rose last month by 100,000, to 370,000. Reflecting some Britons' fears of depression-style mass layoffs, one cartoonist drew a portly Wilson in a wide-lapelled 1930 suit with a breadline in the background. At the same time, the Labor government's spending has expanded despite Wilson's promise of restraint. In September, public-housing starts topped private housing 18,000 to 14,900. By the second half of 1967, predicts the London...
With his father's blessings, Adlai launched his political career in 1964. He was first in the state-wide election for the Illinois House of Representatives (the runner-up was ironically Earl Eisenhower). In the House he was part of a small clique of liberal Democrats that sponsored a package of sorely needed reform legislation. The Republican-dominated Senate, however, voted down anything that smelled faintly of reform...
...Adlai does have higher political aspirations, for example the governor's chair or Senate seat, then the experience of two consecutive victorious state-wide campaigns will be an in valuable asset. He will have proven his ability as a vote-getter and will be at least reasonably familiar with the party organization and the press. Moreover, the experience of this campaign will have allowed him a chance to polish his campaign style. Adlai's speeches tend to be dull and confused, his public image is weak and could use more color; for humor he relies too often on his father...