Word: barriers
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...first five minutes of flight if it veered off course irretrievably. A short, crew-cut aeronautical engineer, Williams worked in aeronautical research after graduating from Louisiana State University, later was project engineer for an experimental program for the X-1 (the first airplane to break the sound barrier) and directed the research program for the more advanced X-15. He took charge of the shoot last week despite a severe sinus infection, analyzed reports from 20 experts on every phase of the preparations through the long, tense hours before the firing. Last week his vital decision to leave Glenn...
...divisions among patriotic. anti-Communist Vietnamese, which are no secret to anyone here," said Nolting, "are in my judgment a great barrier to your country's progress and a real danger to your country's survival." Conceding that Diem was taking his own sweet time in instituting reforms, Nolting said that he agreed "to a certain extent" with those Vietnamese who complain that "the real benefits of a free society are not getting through to the people." But he also praised Diem's "dedicated and courageous leadership," added that reforms "could be accomplished relatively quickly if only...
...University of Alabama. Unhappy at Alabama ("Bear Bryant had just come, and all they thought about was football"), he quit in his sophomore year and joined the Marines. Assigned to Marine Corps Schools in Quantico, Va., Uelses began training in earnest, determined to break the elusive 16-ft. barrier. He worked each day with weights to strengthen his arm, shoulder and back muscles; each night he drove 50 miles to practice vaulting in the University of Maryland's indoor pit. "I never really had a coach," he says. "I just picked up little technical things by watching other vaulters...
...studied understanding of what a people ruled by aliens is really like. If the message of Howard's End was that private relationships are all, that men must only learn to connect, the message of A Passage to India is that an unjust social order can be a stronger barrier to understanding than even sex; that even lover between friends will drown in a sea of racial suspicion and hatred...
...crowd of 500,000 Cubans looked on, 1 8 Soviet-built MIG-17s plus three supersonic MIG-19s thundered over the reviewing stand. One MIG cracked the sound barrier with a thunderclapping boom. Below, past 100-ft.-high pictures of Castro. Lenin and Picasso's peace dove, the ground forces paraded to the strains of the Communist Internationale-artillery with radar-aiming devices, multiple rocket launchers, double-barrelled antiaircraft guns and Soviet 51-ton tanks...