Word: zeroes
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Pray as he might, George Romney last week found the wind nipping off Mount Washington at ten below zero, the waves of voter popularity running 3-to-l in favor of Richard Nixon, and the need to do right as urgent as the lyrics of his new campaign anthem. Whether coursing New Hampshire's icy highways in his cream-colored Dodge camper truck or standing without earmuffs before factory gates, he seemed tough enough for the weather-if not for the competition-in the first primary campaign of the 1968 election...
...victory over Dallas was a typical Packer production fashioned out of both guts and guile. The thermometer in Green Bay stood at 13 below zero, and a 15-m.p.h. wind created a "chill factor" equivalent to 49 below. Packer Quarterback Bart Starr was forced to eat the ball eight times because his receivers were unable to cut properly on the icy field (something the CBS TV cameras never showed). Yet in thelast 5 min., as Dallas led 17-14, Starr coolly, carefully marched his team 69 yds., then took the ball across himself in the final...
Monday's sub-zero temperatures may have saved many of the books from further water damage. A department teaching fellow said that the water froze as soon as it hit the furniture, forming a protective veneer over many desks and bookcases...
...Olympic trials consist of three races. The first, a 15-kilometer race, was held yesterday in sub-zero weather at Putney. Another race over a 30-kilometer course is scheduled for tomorrow. The final race will be held next week at Lake Placid...
...wing ice and frozen gas lines instead of flak, pilots flew more than 1,000 mercy sorties. When an Air Force C-141 dropped 1,300 gal. of fuel oil and a team of paracommandos on Arizona's Tuba City (pop. 2,000), schoolchildren braved 10°-below-zero temperatures-to get the parachutists' autographs...