Word: wide
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...WIDE WORLD OF SPORTS (ABC, 5-6:30 p.m.). The A.A.U. National Track and Field Championships from San Diego. Winners will compete in the U.S.-U.S.S.R. track meet to be televised from Russia via Early Bird satellite on July...
...Four U.S. Navy Skyraiders, slow, piston-driven fighter-bombers, were jumped by two MIG jets over North Viet Nam. The American pilots went down to the deck, dodged around hills and through valleys. When one pursuing MIG fired two rockets that went wide, two of the Skyraiders got a bead on the Red jet, nailed it with 20-mm. cannon fire, and sent it down in flames...
After bloody rioting, the newcomers and the 5,000,000 natives settled down together in an uneasy truce while the Red Chinese juggernaut massed across the 115-mile-wide strip of water. It was then that President Truman warned that the U.S. would do nothing to stop the Communists or to aid Chiang Kaishek...
short of the record for the four-mile pull down the Thames. That made it three in a row for Harvard-and 53-47 on the series-with signs of more to come as both the frosh and junior-varsity crews rowed to victory by wide margins...
Bargains at Tiffany's! The emporium that has seldom had a sale in its 128-year history closed its banklike doors for a day to reduce price tags on the 172,415 baubles in its stores in Manhattan, Houston, San Francisco and Beverly Hills. A 128-carat, inch-wide un-mounted diamond will be reduced from $1,000,000 to $900,000; a $4.50 silver key ring will drop to $4. These cuts -and millions of others across the U.S.- were brought about by the repeal this week of most U.S. excise taxes and the reduction of others...