Word: regularities
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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...Vice President and U.N. ambassador, Nixon and Lodge might easily have slipped into the ceremonial obscurity that traditionally surrounded both posts. But Ike had other ideas about the jobs-and the men. As Vice President, Dick Nixon was privy to the top secrets of the National Security Council, a regular at Cabinet meetings and a frequent globe-trotting representative of the presidency in the far corners of the earth. As the U.S. cotter pin in the United Nations, Lodge was given Cabinet status and a large voice in U.S. policy-and grew in stature to measure up to both. President...
...first rush was to buses. As the queues grew longer and longer, Long Island bus companies pressed some 120 extra buses into service, overloaded the regular runs, still found they were able to take only an additional 25,000 commuters. Most of the railroad regulars then fell back on private autos and car pools. Soon many drivers were getting up at sunrise to beat the bumper-to-bumper traffic on the expressways. Others, map in hand, twisted through country roads and city side streets to avoid the crush, often got lost. "Halfway home," sighed one car-pool commuter, "you usually...
...Sandy is a graduate student in English whose poems used to appear with some frequency in Cambridge literary publications, but who has remained, for one reason or another, out of local print for over a year. It is rather a pity that Caroms did not appear during the regular season, so that those who are interested in such things could observe just what the aforementioned literary publications have been missing...
...have the capacity to meet the tremendous increase in military airlift requirements, CAB granted special rate and other economic exemptions to lines flying charter contracts for MATS. At cut-rate prices established by competitive bidding, nonskeds got the right to fly to given points regardless of the regular carriers already certificated on the route. The effect, CAB now concedes, was to develop "what amounts to an overlapping air transport system...
...keep the world oil glut from getting any worse, the Texas Railroad Commission-overseer of one-third of the U.S. output-rigidly limits the production of regular (i.e., primary-recovery) wells. But as part of its long-range campaign to spur oilmen to go after oil otherwise left behind, the commission grants unlimited production of secondary-recovery wells. These are wells in fields where the underground pressure that normally drives up the oil is exhausted and the oil can be brought up only by other means...