Word: leveled
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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Then, walking briskly to the level of practical politics. Rocky faced the executive committee of his home state's Republican Committee. As down-to-earth politicians, committee members were restless about the awkward, up-in-the-air position of the state's convention delegation. Some of them wanted to pledge the delegation to Nixon, others wanted to commit it to Rockefeller as a favorite son. but all wanted a decision on the delegation's status. At an executive committee meeting in Albany. Rockefeller extracted a resolution that will send New York's 96-vote delegation...
...away as Mars, it requires a giant transmitter to send back one yes or no answer per second to a question. Explains Van Allen: "Instead of sending a yes answer in a second, you may have to stretch it out over a minute if the distance and noise level are great enough. It's almost like talking in a noisy room. If you want to make yourself heard, you're much better off trying to speak slowly than rapidly...
...trade on the telephone, is still fond of it as a basic tool. He would call a friend and "try to break him up," making tapes of the conversations. The tapes were so funny that local radio stations bought them as "ratings boosters" to help raise the level of disk-jockey programs. On last year's Emmy Award program his Lincoln phone call stopped the show...
...peaks of Mount McKinley, the continent's highest mountain, four climbers pecked perilously downward from the 20,320-ft. summit in the white cold of an Alaskan night. Bound to one another by lengths of rope and sinews of courage, they edged along toward the 18,200-ft. level on the sharp west buttress-and then one slipped. As the first fell, and then the second, the third and the fourth, one of them swung his ax into the stubborn ice, but it did not hold. The four fell about 400 ft. and then rolled to a stop, huddled...
There was good reason for the shift. The Federal Reserve Board's index of industrial production, mirroring the nation's total factory output, held level at 109 in April. Personal income rose to a new high of $397.5 billion in April, jumping $3.5 billion for the month, in contrast to an average monthly gain so far this year of only $600 million. Paced by Chrysler and General Motors, auto production last week hit a three-month high of 156-578 cars-pushing total 1960 production above 3,000,000-17% ahead...