Word: wide
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Charles S. Murphy, 55, Under Secretary of Agriculture, will replace Boyd as CAB chairman, though he has virtually no background in the field. A lawyer from North Carolina, Murphy has served in Government for 28 years in a wide range of jobs, notably as President Truman's special counsel from 1950 to 1953. During the Senate investigation of the financial shenanigans of Convicted Swindler Billie Sol Estes, Democrat Murphy, then Agriculture Secretary Orville Freeman's right-hand man, was roundly criticized by Republicans for showing favoritism to Estes, but he emerged from the scandal unscathed after Freeman vouched...
...Wessin y Wessin helped stop the Armed Forces Secretary from overthrowing the seven-man civilian Council of State that administered the country after Trujillo. A year later, he led a coup to depose the country's newly elected President, Juan Bosch, whose promises of reform won wide praise but whose attitude toward Communists was highly permissive. Bosch declared an amnesty for all exiles, permitted scores of far leftists to return from Cuba and Europe?"the better to watch them," he said. When Bosch refused to restrict the Communists' right to travel and even allowed trips to Cuba, Wessin...
...Slim") Maxwell, 52, who opened the desert water-skiing center last week, got the idea one hot afternoon when he saw a pickup truck towing an indomitable water skier along a 6-ft.-wide irrigation ditch. He was working on a commercial adaptation of boatless skiing when a friend wrote to him about one that had already been developed by a Swiss trolley-car company, and Maxwell wrote at once to get the first U.S. franchise, which may soon put water skiing on a nationwide basis...
...shape of a hollow rectangle and lined it with plastic to keep the water from draining away into the sand (TIME, Oct. 12, 1962). In the center is a 4½-acre park with a swimming pool, paddle-tennis courts, refreshment stands and palm trees. The 250-ft.-wide ski course runs beneath four towers that support an overhead steel cable, powered by a 74-h.p. diesel engine. At ten-second intervals it carries 77-ft. tow ropes past a carpeted dock, from which the skier launches himself to whoosh around the rectangular track at about 25 m.p.h. (for experts...
John Bakkensen and Bill Pfeiffer should take one-two in the discus, and Crimson teammate John Micketts will battle Wall-in and Flora for third position. The Crimson edge in the pole vault is not so wide. Dave Bell and George Winters, the indoor Greater Boston champion, have both cleared 13 ft--6 in. higher than B.U.'s Jeff Blatt and Northeastern's Ed Speath...