Word: wings
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Lambda Nu's men and women will share the dining room, living room and other facilities of the fraternity's handsome house overlooking Lake Lagunita. The coeds' sleeping quarters will occupy a wing conveniently separated from the rest of the house by a fire door and by corridors leading to the common rooms. There will be no housemother, though a male university administrator, who now lives in the house as a "resident assistant," will continue to oversee its activities...
...powerful weapon against his critics. The penalty for violating the law can run as high as a $20,000 fine, a year in prison and loss of the right to vote. Government prosecutors are working overtime to bring violators to justice. A Paris court has just fined left-wing Writer François Fonvieille-Alquier for writing in his new book, To Relearn Irreverence, that the general gets carnal pleasure from appearing before crowds...
...budget. By taking money from British pockets, the whole tax package is generally intended to dampen demand at home, thus help ease the country's chronic balance of payments deficit. The soak-the-rich character of the investment-income levy has the added political purpose of pleasing left-wing members of Harold Wilson's ruling Labor Party...
Claude Larose, a hapless wing who had scored only two goals during the entire regular season, lifted the rebounding puck over the mess in front of him and into the nets...
Under the Net. The F-111 is the world's first combat plane with the so-called "variable geometry" wing, which extends for greater lift during takeoff and landing, folds back for less drag at supersonic speeds. Its "terrain radar," which automatically adjusts the plane's altitude to accord with the topography, is supposed to enable the plane to hug the ground while flying at a speed of 900 m.p.h. and thus dash in below the enemy radar net. If the first F-111 did hit a mountain, it was probably due to a malfunction in the terrain...