Word: window
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Moore-McCormack Lines' cruise ship S.S. Argentina, who joined the company in 1949 as a junior officer, later skippered freighters before taking command of passenger vessels three years ago; after vanishing mysteriously from his ship (Moore-McCormack says he apparently committed suicide by jumping out his cabin window) en route from Jamaica to Bermuda...
...dragged out a Sidewinder missile. An air-to-air heat-seeking weapon used by American planes in Viet Nam, the Sidewinder is about 9½ ft. long and weighs 165 Ibs. Undaunted, the trio trundled the missile to their car in a wheelbarrow, broke the car's rear window to fit the rocket in, wrapped a rug around its protruding end, and drove more than 100 miles across West Germany to an undisclosed city...
...passenger seats. Alabama's George Wallace, an engineer in a B-29 crew during World War II, is no exception. Recently, when a British journalist tried to interview him on his chartered Electra high over Illinois, Wallace turned off all questions while he stared fixedly out the window. "Listen, sonny," he said, "I'm tryin' to get us out of this weather. Now leave me be." California's Ronald Reagan is no braver. Congratulated recently because he seemed to have overcome his fear of flying, Reagan snapped back: "Overcome it, hell. I'm holding this...
...Dusseldorf in the Ruhr and at Frankfurt, but we chose Stuttgart. Our managers prefer to stay here." That kind of intangible is often enough to tip the balance in Baden-Württemberg's favor. It makes a difference to be able to look out an office window and see green hills topped by castles instead of clouds of soot...
...most of the past 50 years, and he has strong feelings about the expanding troubles of his adopted city. After discussing his first cover assignment with TIME'S editors on the 25th floor of the TIME and LIFE Building in Manhattan, Bearden happened to look out of the window just before he left for his studio. His worries about New York added an artistic distortion to what he saw. "The buildings were full of lights," he remembers. "I saw them toppling about the mayor...