Word: bigs
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...intellectual, it is not surprising that his present role is tentative and tormented." Now that he is back in Cambridge after three years as Under Secretary of the Department of Housing and Urban Development, Wood says: "It was a sobering but not a corrupting experience. The alternative in a big, complex society is to let the programs and policies be formulated by intuition, by interest groups, by the feelings of politicians who are too busy to focus much attention on the problems...
...things have been done before, and been done better," says Lead Guitarist Steve Katz. "But they've never been put together better before. We play primarily to a young audience, and we're saying to them: 'You've forgotten about sounds that have gone before-big bands, Delta blues, Charlie Parker, classical.' We're presenting them all in a rock package." It makes a powerfully appealing package. The LP has sold more than 600,000 copies since its release in December, and last week was No. 2 on the pop charts...
...help achieve this breakthrough, NASA has three different rockets on its drawing boards: Tri-Maran (a reusable three-stage booster whose stages are mounted side by side instead of atop each other); Dixie Cup (with a low-cost, discardable, solid-fuel first stage), and the Big Dumb Booster (so called because it has neither guidance equipment nor complicated fuel pumps and plumbing). A Nerva nuclear engine, which will be used only after a rocket has left the atmosphere, is being test-fired at Jackass Flats, Nev. When perfected, the engines could generate 75,000 Ibs. of thrust with half...
...Soviet competition can be expected to spur other U.S. space ventures. Several Russians have recently emerged from a sealed chamber with self-contained life-support systems, after a year-the duration of a manned voyage to Mars. Moreover, NASA officials claim that Soviet scientists may soon unveil a rocket big enough to fly directly from earth to the moon, land and take off again. Such brute-force spacemanship might convince the U.S. that, as Von Braun maintains, "Russia still wants to beat us in space." If that happens, the money spigot would probably open wide again, and a new race...
Greyhound and General argued over who was going to rule it, but the antagonists quickly realized that the kingdom was big enough for both of them. They called a meeting and asked Billy to abdicate. When he refused, they threatened to take him before the high judges. Rather than risk a fight that he was likely to lose anyway, Billy-still a prince in name and by no means a pauper-gave up his throne last week. After his abdication, the Trustbusters said that they would nonetheless try to stop General from taking over the empire. But Prince was gone...