Word: wide
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...usual in so wide-ranging a story, TIME correspondents across the country sought out the facts from major airline executives, aircraft manufacturers, financial specialists and Government officials. Their reports provided the fresh basic material for Writer Gurney Breckenfeld and Editor Champ Clark. Breckenfeld, a World War II Air Force information officer, managed to get to Los Angeles to inspect the mock-up of Lockheed's supersonic transport a week before the strike started. A devoted air traveler, Breckenfeld tempers his enthusiasm with only one qualification. "Some airlines," he says, "serve better wines than others...
...prevent the use of union funds in Hoffa's legal defense, a move that has so far succeeded. For the most part, though, opposition to Hoffa is divided and weak. Potential putsches die aborning for lack of courage or of a rival leader strong enough to attract wide support...
...Motors' Cleveland plant. The Sheridan, the most revolutionary tank since World War II, is the U.S.'s first with a cannon capable of firing both conventional shells and guided missiles. It can be air-dropped from C-130 or C-141 cargo planes (by eight 100-ft.-wide parachutes) without damage, swim like a turtle across water obstacles. After testing, it will go into operation within a year. An even more versatile vehicle, the MBT-70 (for Main Battle Tank of the '70s), is being developed jointly by the U.S. and West Germany in history...
Banda is just as emphatically his own man on Africa-wide matters. Last week Diallo Telli, Guinea's leftist secretary-general of the Organization of African Unity, was in Malawi for Banda's inauguration when he suddenly found some of his pet schemes under scathing attack during a Banda press conference. "I didn't fight the British to exchange British imperialism for Eastern imperialism," Banda snapped. Then looking Telli straight in the eye, Banda shouted: "I mean that! I'm saying that because you are here. You can expel Malawi from the O.A.U." As Telli shrank...
...most 19th century U.S. painting. Whether seas of grass or prairies of briny waves, the American wilderness seemed to have only distant dimensions. The way to conquer that expanse was to shrink it to human scale and bring man to the foreground of the new nation's wide horizons. Winslow Homer set out to bring the American vista into focus...