Word: leaded
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...when a National Airlines pilot was rolling his 707 down a Miami runway. Suddenly one engine flamed out. Though the plane was within three or four knots of critical takeoff speed and thus technically should have aborted, it looked to the pilot as if such action would almost certainly lead to a crackup. Making his decision in an instant, the National pilot kept going, lifted the plane off the ground, circled around and landed safely. Still, an accompanying FAA flight inspector filed a complaint against the pilot for rule-book infringement. Though A.L.P.A. Boss Sayen hammered away...
...Communism, a man who had made his own revolution instead of merely inheriting it. At first Mao often intervened grandly in Communist Europe-at one point to back the Poles against Kremlin pressures, later to help Khrushchev when his authority tottered after the Hungarian revolt, and finally to lead the 1958 outcry against Tito's deviation from the true faith. But as the Sino-Soviet pact became ten years old, it was Johnny-Come-Lately Nikita Khrushchev who had to go to China's rescue. It had been a disastrous year for China: troubles in the communes...
...limousines having proved impossible, they moved from hotels to sessions in chartered streetcars. Meetings were a mad mélange of inflammatory speeches, door-slamming walkouts, rival press conferences and angry communiqués as 60 Congolese parties and innumerable tribal chiefs jockeyed for position in the race to lead the vast new nation-to-be. One delegate tried to restrain the others by quoting an old tribal saying: "He who tries to eat before the others burns himself." Chief rival for the power of the mercurial Kasavubu is Patrice Lumumba, 33, onetime postal clerk in Stanleyville who served...
With this final honor, Gossie retired from the show ring, was carried off to the Venables' home in Atlanta. There he will lead a life of casual ease, and devote himself to the task of improving his breed (stud fee $150). Business should be brisk, for Pekingese fanciers are willing to overlook the single fault of Westminster's champion. He snores...
...thought they saw something good. After Paul V. Shields, senior partner in the Manhattan brokerage firm of Shields & Co., announced details of the deal to merge NAFI Corp. with Chris-Craft Corp. (TIME, Feb. 15), NAFI shot up 10⅜ points during the week to close at 29⅜, lead the exchange in trading. Polaroid rose more than 6 points during the week, and respectable gains were chalked up by Texas Instruments and Ampex...