Word: avoiding
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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After a detailed mission briefing and a long preflight check, we finally took off from Andersen Air Force Base on Guam, leading a "cell" of three planes spaced two miles apart to avoid mid-air collisions. Three hours later, over the Philippines, the green-and-black camouflaged Stratoforts rendezvoused with three KC-135 jet tankers for a 40-minute ballet of mid-air refueling...
...influence of the magnificent Alfred Hitchcock is easily discernible in countless films, and impossible to avoid in those of Francois Truffaut. Soft Skin, Truffaut's best film, integrates into its exhausting spontaneity setups from North by Northwest, and Farenheit 451, Truffaut's worst film, slavishly duplicates shot sequences from all Hitchcock's late work, climaxing in a dreadful track-in/zoom-out shot recreating Hitchcock's Vertigo distortion effect. God knows we can all learn from the Master. Nonetheless, Hitchcock-imitation is not one of Truffaut's more endearing stylistic traits and, light years behind his idol in quality, Truffaut...
...Whole Crowd. The lack of real pressure until Rockefeller began booming last month made it easy for Nixon to avoid mistakes of the past. He gets plenty of rest. His appearances are so scrupulously planned and executed that his staff calls them "drills." He has complemented his basic speech, which is mostly a catalogue of Administration sins, with some thoughtful papers that have provoked serious discussion. He gets along better with the press than ever before, al though he is still not exactly chummy with reporters. A "new" Nixon? The next few months will be a better test. Meanwhile, Julius...
Although students are grouped by interest, Senior Advisor Thomas tries to "avoid having one dorm all physics majors or all athletes." This, however, doesn't always work out in practice...
...That is our ideal goal," said assistant Dean of Freshmen W.C. Burris Young. "We try to avoid hatchet murder situations." To accomplish this, Young added, "we try to give each student what he asks...