Word: soarings
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Harvard baseball team descends again to the workaday world this weekend after its 27-9 soar into Brandies could-cuckoo land. But the Crimson will land with a thud unless the hitters can scrape up some runs against Columbia today and Army Saturday...
...becoming more capacious, skyways are getting more crowded, and the number of passengers-150 million this year-is expanding by 15% annually. Figuring that the number of passenger-miles will multiply 20-fold within 35 years, Bo Lundberg, head of Sweden's Aeronautical Foundation, forecasts that fatalities will soar to an intolerable 10,000 a year unless the accident rate is sharply reduced. It almost surely will be. But there will always be accidents. "If we wanted absolute safety," says Douglas Aircraft Executive Vice President Wellwood Beall, "we'd never get the planes...
...citizens). Khrushchevian "goulash"-the consumer goods that all Eastern European governments now crave-is evident but still in short supply. Because of economic planning that, despite reforms, is still harshly controlled from the top, there may be a glut of pineapple and an absence of avocado. Shoe prices can soar as high in Hungary as a week's wages ($33) and fall correspondingly
...Baltimore Developer James Rouse. "The best prospect we have is that we will become a nation of Los Angeleses." More than 800 U.S. cities have modernized their housing and zoning codes in the past few years, and Houston is now the only major city that has allowed itself to soar and sprawl without zoning controls of any kind...
Cooper has let his imagination soar even farther. Using different radii and gravitational forces in his formulas, he has laid out the mathematical groundwork for extraterrestrial travel networks. According to his calculations, straight-line tunnel travel between any two surface locations would be 53 minutes on the moon, 49 on Mars...