Word: sevens
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...spirited winds had something in common with the voyage that Arkansas' Wilbur Mills, chairman of the powerful House Ways & Means Committee, embarked on last week. With Mills's hand on the tiller, the House committee killed off by a vote of 17 to 8 (ten Republicans, seven Democrats v. eight Democrats) the Forand bill (TIME, April 4), which would provide old-age medical and surgical benefits to Social Security pensioners at a cost -to be paid for by increased Social Security taxes-estimated to run $2 billion in the first year and up to $7.5 billion...
...seagoing missile laboratory, fitted with exact duplicates of launching tubes aboard the Navy's two Polaris submarines, listed 2^ degrees to starboard. Deep below the ship's afterdeck, a tube holding a Polaris missile was tilted another seven degrees to guarantee that the missile would fire away from the ship. Suddenly, amid a great puff of white steam formed by compressed air, the sleek, 28-ft. missile whooshed 70 ft. into the dark sky, seemed to hang motionless for an instant, then ignited in a blinding white flash and roared 800 miles down the Caribbean range...
...fast-paced Polaris project, a full three years ahead of original schedule, was pushed even harder as the Navy shifted $52 million from other shipbuilding and reserve funds to speed seven nuclear subs now under construction, advanced operational dates by ten weeks. The Navy's eventual fleet of 18 nuclear Polaris subs (by 1964) will berth and load missiles at a new $26.5 million base seven miles above the Charleston, S.C. harbor on the Cooper River. At dedication ceremonies last week, Rear Admiral William F. ("Red") Raborn, chief of the Polaris project, looked confidently beyond the Polaris...
...soon extended its routes beyond the Iberian Peninsula to India and the Orient. When World War I began, the company laid plans for expansion to meet the expected shipping shortage at war's end. Though the Admiralty took over P. & O.'s fleet, the company bought up seven of its competitors, by 1919 controlled half a million more tons of shipping than when the war broke out -though most of its own ships had been sent to the bottom...
Stony-broke and close to hunger, he trusted his dervish genius to see him through. Sometimes typing "a slab of 10,000 words every two days," Durrell reeled off his tetralogy at an astonishing clip: Justine (about four months), Balthazar (six weeks), Mount olive (two months), Clea (seven weeks). His major defect, he feels, is overwriting, a prose style that is "too juicy...