Word: breakthroughs
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...space experts have long assumed that a single giant booster had been used to launch Vostok and later Soviet spacecraft, the vehicle displayed at Paris consisted of a relatively small two-stage rocket surrounded by a cluster of four conical, strap-on rocket engines. Instead of achieving the major breakthrough in rocket technology believed by the West to have made the Gagarin flight possible, the Russians had simply strapped together enough smaller rocket engines to provide the necessary thrust...
This sort of novel (John Rechy's City of Night, Alfred Chester's The Exquisite Corpse) runs to a pat boy-meets-boy formula and also takes to a traditional thematic cover. The jacket proclaims a search for love and the breakthrough from loneliness. But inside the jacket the reader usually finds an untucked hair shirt of violence and degradation. The gay life never leads down a simple primrose path; most relationships of this sort are entangled in the bramble of sadomasochism, and inevitably, the virgin is despoiled, the innocent becomes jaded, and another sensitive, out-of-step...
Impressed by Lockheed's breakthrough, the Army may order 500 or more of the $1,000,000 Cheyennes if prototype testing is successful, have them in the field by 1970. Meanwhile, Lockheed is working up other compound-plane ideas. Among them: a 400-m.p.h. military transport with folding rotors and an intercity "air commuter" to whisk 70 passengers from one downtown district to another at 300 m.p.h...
...last vestige from the old "religious" days of Reading Dynamics which has since been altered is the "Breakthrough," which denotes the abrupt attainment of dynamic reading. Kilgo desrcibes his Breakthrough in an unmistakably religious manner, "It was as if I was in a trance. My vision blurred and suddenly I could see the entire page in one glance. It was induced by rhythmic repetition over the same page many times." The term has been dropped, in favor of a more gradual description of success, because it was not conducive to profit making. "We have been instructed not to talk about...
...rare gift that nobody could "teach." Most of these experts still assert this belief today. The Harvard reading people, however, take a broader middle position. They hold that in the setting of college work one must provide as much for the improvement of conventional reading skills as for the breakthrough into extreme speeds for those people capable of it. Says Roderic C. Hodgins, who has taught Harvard's reading course more than anybody else in the past five years, "It is like teaching somebody to ride a bicycle. It is perfectly easy to tell him what is done...