Word: avoider
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Carmine De Sapio and the borough bosses already controlled about 600 votes, with only 572 needed to nominate their candidate. That being so, they would have none of Tom Murray. But De Sapio was willing to try to avoid an open, party-fracturing break with Harriman. Efforts to find a compromise candidate inevitably turned to New York City's Mayor Robert Wagner, popular in the city and upstate with both the liberal amateurs and the professionals...
...hours later, the Communist military commander for the Fukien district of South China, who may not be a madman but hardly qualifies as a preserver of the peace, sent crashing out an entirely different message, addressed to the Nationalist Chinese garrison entrenched on Quemoy Island: "No military works can avoid complete destruction under the assault of our modern army and air force . . . The landing on Quemoy is imminent . . . Surrender...
...Avoid the Lopsided. Harvey Mudd College puts its students through two years of required courses before letting them choose a major from four technical fields: physics, chemistry, mathematics and engineering science. Whenever possible, liberal arts courses are keyed to the sciences. Students learn, for instance, the sort of culture England had when Newton developed his laws of motion. But the liberal arts range widely and independently. This year Harvey Mudd's 43 sophomores will write major research papers on nonscientific subjects. Says Assistant English Professor George Wickes: "We don't want to turn out lopsided kids...
...intense above the equator and weakest above the poles. He theorizes that it consists of protons, trapped by the earth's magnetic field, which spiral around lines of magnetic force at right angles. Thus a manned vehicle (launched near the poles) might carry a lightweight shielding ring to avoid proton concentrations, or use magnetic screening to repel them. Also possible: a satellite designed to "sweep out" a channel by absorbing protons, allowing a manned vehicle to follow safely...
Despite the two-for-one change, no one expects any change in G.M. policies. Corporation attitudes on products, marketing, labor and prices will likely remain as they were in Red Curtice's reign. Nor will G.M. settle, as some think, for a lesser share of the market to avoid antitrust suits. Said one executive last week: "We've never turned away any business yet, and I can't see where we ever will...