Word: breakthroughs
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Ultimate Breakthrough...
...agree with my party leader, Hubert Humphrey, that Howard Lee's victory over me in being elected mayor of the town of Chapel Hill is "a new breakthrough in Southern politics" [May 16]. For all of my adult life I have worked for the elimination of racial discrimination in this community, and I welcome the climate that has made it possible for a Negro to be elected to this town's highest office...
...housing program and the industry that serves it. He insists that his plan can add between 250,000 and 350,000 units a year to U.S. housing starts, which are limping along at an annual rate of 1,500,000 and have been declining for three months. Named Operation Breakthrough, the plan calls for states and cities to pool their separate, federally subsidized projects into large-scale "mass markets." The Secretary hopes to attract giant corporations into housing construction and to wring economies from volume production. Localities would have to remove building codes, zoning and other barriers that fragment today...
...next mayor-by 2,567 votes out of a record 4,734 cast. Lee is the eleventh black mayor in the South, but the first to be elected in a predominantly white Southern community. Said former Vice President Hubert Humphrey in a congratulatory telegram: "This is a new breakthrough in Southern politics...
...lifting bodies." Some of them will have retractable "switchblade" wings and enough maneuverability for landings at airfields instead of in the ocean. Eventually, Administrator Paine also hopes to cut the cost of putting a pound into earth orbit from the current $500 to $50. To help achieve this breakthrough, NASA has three different rockets on its drawing boards: Tri-Maran (a reusable three-stage booster whose stages are mounted side by side instead of atop each other); Dixie Cup (with a low-cost, discardable, solid-fuel first stage), and the Big Dumb Booster (so called because it has neither guidance...