Word: briefings
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...designed to eliminate such reaction almost entirely. The spaceman's wrench, 10½ in. long, 9 in. high and 5 in. wide across the motor housing, has a built-in reaction absorber. When the astronaut presses the trigger, the motor near the handle compresses a spring with a brief quick twist. As the spring expands, it turns the hollow cylinder that surrounds it. Compression and release of the spring occur, alternately, 1,800 times a second. The turning force of the cylindrical mass is what turns the operating end of the wrench. The rapid rotation and counterrotation of cylinder...
...increase in wages, while the union asks for 4.4%, or about 50? an hour over a three-year contract. Neither side wants a strike, and both are optimistic. Official Washington also does not anticipate a strike, but figures that if a stoppage does occur, it will be brief. Pittsburgh insiders doubt that any prolonged shutdown would be tolerated by an impatient President during a Viet Nam emergency; they would not be surprised to see a settlement calling for a 4% rise in wages, which would further dent but not necessarily destroy the Administration's 3.2% guideline...
...Jack N. James, 44, expert in radar guidance control and organizing genius of the JPL team, was recently promoted to the job of Assistant Deputy Director of JPL in charge of lunar and planetary projects. He headed the group that built Mariner II in the incredibly brief time of eleven months, also organized the Mariner IV team...
...through the Lowlands to Munich, he sold sketches "in the manner of Rembrandt." When the money ran out, he returned to Paris. There he made his most important decision: to be a sculptor. There, too, he met the woman with whom he was to share the rest of his brief life-a Polish-born poetess 20 years his senior named Sophie Brzeska...
...stations of Hector Guimard to the décor of Maxim's, symmetry was out, organic flow was in, and nothing from the insect or aquatic world was too exotic. La Belle Époque lasted little more than a couple of decades (1880-1905), but in that brief span produced a series of small masterpieces, none more dazzling than its high-style jewelry (see color...