Word: bucked
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...current safety committee hearings in Washington are getting votes and selling books, but accomplishing little else. There are too many people on the road who shouldn't be there, but as long as they can vote, the committee will continue to pass the buck to the automobile manufacturers. If driver-license standards were stiffened, judgment, mental and physical tests given, highway laws and signs made uniform, stiffer penalties for violations enforced, the remaining good drivers could go around in a four-wheeled egg crate and never splinter the wood...
Several have been engaged in space-related scientific research. Air Force Major Edward G. Givens Jr., 36, has been stationed at NASA's Houston headquarters, as project officer for a Buck Rogersish backpack to power space walks. Physicist Don L. Lind, a former Navy airman, helped devise a mechanism for measuring "solar wind"-charged particles that flow through space. Youngest of the lot at 28 is Navy Lieut. Bruce McCandless II, a doctoral candidate in electrical engineering at Stanford, whose father won the Medal of Honor aboard the U.S.S. San Francisco off Guadalcanal...
...Young Hubert's education in political science at the University of Minnesota was interrupted by financial troubles for six years. Before he finally received his degree magna cum laude, he had worked as a druggist, soda jerk, janitor and hog inoculator. After marrying a home-town girl, Muriel Buck, and fathering the first of their four children, Humphrey went to graduate school and wrote his master's thesis on the New Deal. Settling in Minneapolis, where his first teaching job was for the WPA, he inevitably became involved in local politics...
Turning the pioneers' trading posts into towns, and the towns into cities, worked the same strain deeper into the American character. Fast-buck operators flourished, the rapid turnover and the quick profit were the dreams of many a businessman. But the more typical pattern for 19th century business and industry was the narrowed eye with the long view, the reinvested profit, the McGuffey and Horatio Alger mottoes on the mind...
...General Courtney Hicks Hodges, 79, World War II commander of the U.S. First Army in its spearhead drive across the center of France and Germany; of a heart attack; in San Antonio. A sober professional who in 1905 flunked out of West Point (for failing geometry), then climbed from buck private to four-star general, Hodges had little of the personal flair of a Patton or a Montgomery; but he was a solid tactician whose 450,000-man force liberated Paris, fought its way out of the bitter Battle of the Bulge and smashed the Nazis' Siegfried Line...