Word: aimed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...take vehement objection to your implicit characterization of the Paulist fathers [Feb. 3] as an "American Missionary Group" employing "American techniques." Many prominent Catholics find their tactlessness and indiscretions revolting. Their real aim is to make every free nation a vassal state of the Vatican...
SINS & SAC. The navigation problems were just as baffling. To aim any missile with accuracy, a missileer must know his own geographic position within a fraction of a mile. Land-based missile crews can set their guidance systems for the target on the basis of their known position. But how, traveling hundreds of feet below the sea, could the Navy subs fix position accurately? An error of a few hundred yards at launching point could mean a wide miss of the target 1,500 miles away. Advances in celestial navigation and radio astronomy systems helped, but the big answer came...
Accent of Emptiness. Mies van der Rohe believes that "structure is spiritual"; his aim is to express the skyscraper's essential steel cage as dramatically as possible and with a maximum of economy. In the Seagram building, he did this with deceptive simplicity. To avoid the stairstep building plan that Manhattan architects have overused to meet zoning requirements (the tower must be only 25% of the site area), Mies sacrificed valuable Park Avenue frontage, threw open a wide plaza. This gave him an opportunity to create an accent of emptiness, at the same time gave his building a dramatic...
...despises me." All the pros were anxious and depressed; no fewer than 15 had tried suicide, many of them several times; one succeeded on the sixth try. Of the six he analyzed, Dr. Greenwald could report proudly that five quit the racket (though that was not their aim in seeking therapy, but relief from anxiety and depression). Some got married, others went into legitimate businesses...
...problem was more psychological than material-but that did not lessen its seriousness. Last week was a case in point: despite mounting unemployment figures, the Administration was confident of the basic strength of the U.S. economy, and President Eisenhower told why in a special message (see The Economy). His aim was to instill public confidence in the fact that the economy was in strong, sure hands. His Administration, he said, was keeping constant vigilance. Yet the very next day he was off for a ten-day vacation on the Georgia estate of ex-Treasury Secretary George Magoffin Humphrey, last year...