Word: aiming
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...went all last week as 80 amateur rocketeers, aged nine to 67, fired off samples of their best hardware at the eighth national meet of the National Association of Rocketry. The 2,000-member organization was formed in the post-Sputnik days, had as its main aim the laying down of rules so that the hobby, which often proved fatal, would be safe as well as fun. Eight years ago, the N.A.R. estimates, homemade rockets were killing or maiming one out of every seven kids and laymen attempting to mix fuel and fire a backyard bird. Explosive mixtures of sulphur...
...Black Power are not integration or acceptance in the white society, but rather a separate equality of living standards for the Black communities. Carmichael dispels the myth that Negroes want to go to school in the white suburbs--"we want good schools in the ghettos." Black Power does not aim at the conventional civil rights goal of integration, but rather aims to destroy white supremacy...
...stories aim to pinpoint trends not yet widely reported, and often turn out to be a scoop when printed. Last month a leader broke the news that a 71-lb. television camera developed by Westinghouse is scheduled to go along on the first U.S. mission to the moon and telecast the trip live. Three times in the past five years enterprising leader writers have won Pulitzer Prizes for such stories as the expose of the commodity market's 1964 salad-oil scandal...
...went west, none returned with so important and thorough a document as George Catlin. The first artist to make the hazardous trip all the way up the Missouri River, Catlin lived among the Indians for eight years, brought back 510 paintings of the doomed "knights of the forest." His aim, he said, was to so record "their looks and their modes" that they "might live again upon canvas, and stand forth for centuries yet to come, the living monuments of a noble race." And so they do, ironically, in the Buffalo Bill Historical Center at Cody...
...stumbling film about a woman mesmerized by the memory of her late husband, a jaunty movie stunt man who was killed while dancing through a battlefield set where a prop man's shell misfired. One Sunday at the Deauville school where their young children board, the widow (Anouk Aimée) meets a handsome widower (Jean-Louis Trintignant), a racing driver whose wife impulsively committed suicide, thinking that he had been killed in a crash at Le Mans...