Word: flatly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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There is an almost epic symbolism in the match of Procaccino against John Lindsay, who early in his four-year term was perhaps the most celebrated and promising mayor in the U.S. Tall, handsome, flat-bellied, articulate with tongue and pen, popular with academics, big businessmen and show people as well as students and black slum residents, Lindsay represents the aristocratic remnant in local politics. As the liberal Republican who broke the Democratic hold on New York City, he was once touted as a future opponent to Robert Kennedy for the presidency. Only 47, he may yet have a national...
...lunar-like surface. But after considerable electronic enhancement of the pictures, a slow process that increases contrasts and eliminates random "noise" in the radio signals, the scientists have now produced a portfolio of photographs that show three distinctly different types of Martian topography. Besides cratered regions, there are huge, flat, featureless areas like the 1,200-mile-long plain called Hellas. There are also vast expanses of jumbled, chaotic terrain, whose short ridges and small valleys are unlike any features on the moon and do not exist on so large a scale on earth. Concludes Caltech Geologist Robert Sharp: "Mars...
...greatest single dissatisfaction is the shortage of moderately priced housing considered acceptable by U.S. suburban standards. Emmet Harriss of Manhattan's First National City Bank spent $7,500 renovating his Paris flat, but still has to budget $800 a year for electrical repairs. The chief of operations for a U.S. oil company was dismayed to find the plumbing so erratic in his villa on Rome's Via Appia Antica that for a time he stocked bottled water for guests to wash in. When William Wyman, vice president of Booz, Allen & Hamilton, rented an apartment in Düsseldorf...
...inducing men to accept jobs in Africa and the Middle East. Today, the extras apply almost everywhere and sometimes add 50% to a paycheck. International Harvester pays its employees a bonus of as much as 20% to go abroad, and Pan American grants a flat $75 a month. General Motors expects its men to pay 15% of their salaries for rent, but the company defrays seven-eighths of anything above that level. Like many other corporations, G.M. also pays for the children's private school and flies the whole family home once every two years...
...they want to see and when. By pushing buttons on a console, the clerk queries a regional computer's "memory bank" and gets an instant reading on what seats are available. Customers then can have their tickets printed electronically on the spot. The T.R.S. Ticketron system charges a flat rate of 25? per ticket for local events. Manhattan ticket brokers normally charge more-$1.50 per seat...