Word: bushing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Built-in Disposal. Last month, landed by a bush pilot on a glacier at 7,000 ft., the four began their long push-the kind of adventure that pales a plains dweller. At 12,500 ft., they labored nine hours to hack 7-by-7-ft. platform from a 45° ice slope, wryly called it Concentration Camp, complete, as one climber noted, "with a handy garbage disposal - a 1,600-ft. drop." Ahead lay two deadly perils: a pair of giant, swelling domes of blue ice that left them as exposed to the fickle Alaskan weather as flies...
Weaning Process. Another firm that leans heavily on the universities is Raytheon, the major missilemaker (Sparrow, Hawk), which was co-founded by M.I.T. Scientist Vannevar Bush and is now bossed by Harvard-bred Banker Charles Francis Adams (TIME, June 23, 1958). Raytheon keeps 30 to 40 university consultants on tap for problems, pays them $75 to $100 a day. Some 128 consultants get up to $10,000 a year ("More than they earn by teaching," says one Raytheon executive...
Faculty boards have become reconciled to the fact that consulting jobs keep many valuable men and women at the university, while they otherwise might be tempted into industry. M.I.T.. which stars in both pure and applied research (Dr. Bush developed the first electronic computers there in the 1930s), goes even farther: it feels a responsibility to pioneer techniques for industry. "We get a thing dry behind the ears and wean it." says M.I.T.'s Dean Brown. "Weaning means kicking it off the campus...
...Guinea, 312,329 square miles of steaming, often impenetrable jungle and snowcapped mountains populated by 2,400,000 natives-90% illiterate-and some 34,000 emigre whites. Yet for nine years the Post has successfully managed to give a voice to an area where news once traveled largely by bush telegraph...
Such shenanigans delighted the troops, but they did not always please British commanders-notably General Thomas Gage, whose light infantry showed up poorly in comparison with the bush fighters, who had become known as "Rogers' Rangers." Gage became Rogers' lifelong enemy, and years later, when the New Hampshire man commanded the outpost at Michilimackinac on Lake Michigan, Gage was to bring a wholly unfounded charge of treason against...