Word: ac
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Cambridge where it is both unwelcome and harmful. It is still hard to say whether the proposed route should be changed, but Boyd was at least willing to listen to local complaints and suggestions. Nothing in Volpe's performance as governor or his what-makes-Sammy-run desire for ac-complishment suggests he will be as accommodating. "In his haste to get the job done," one high official in the DOT said of Volpe, "I'm afraid he might run over some rights of the public...
They compose their own songs, sing them in soft, burred voices, and ac company themselves on a bewildering array of instruments: guitars, whistles, sitars, ouds, organs, harmonicas, violins and gimbris. At a time when the music scene reverberates with cacophony and aggression, they expound gentleness, lyricism and fantasy. As they put it in one of their songs, Ducks on a Pond, they sing "a magic word, speak of hopes with thoughts absurd...
...reason of various arrangements with all 50 states (in most cases, Polk pays for what it gets), Polk is able to tap the great wealth of information ac cumulated in car-licensing bureaus. As a result, it is the only central source of nationwide car registration, keeping track of all 100 million vehicles on the road. Although automakers obviously know how many cars they produce, Polk supplies the figures on actual sales. It also traces down for the carmakers the owners of autos that have been re called for repairs...
Crude Circus. With the exception of Leaving the Yellow House, published in Esquire in 1957, the early stories are staged with willing if befuddled ac- tors who are too deeply involved with workaday concerns to do much lofty abstracting. In The Old System (1967) and Mosby's Memoirs (1968), the protagonists are aging rationalists of considerable accomplishment. Both are shown trying to define the meaning of their own lives by musing about the weaknesses of people they have known...
...space and rendezvoused with their discarded Saturn 4B booster (see color pictures). More important, by checking out Apollo's control, navigation, communications and life-support systems, they confirmed that the craft was completely spaceworthy. If no unexpected difficulties are uncovered as technicians decipher the mountain of data that ac cumulated during the flight, an Apollo 8 crew composed of Frank Borman, James Lovell and William Anders may be sent into orbit around the moon with in as little as six weeks...