Word: catch-up
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Last week Poverty Director Sargent Shriver dropped in on the James gang to see how the money was being spent. Accompanied by Jesse, he looked in on a highly informal catch-up class for high school dropouts, tuned an ear to an aspiring musical group practicing on bongos and guitars, watched a workout in the boxing ring, inspected the carpentry shop where Rebels were hard at work sharpening their skills for union apprenticeship exams, and came away impressed. "This is of the people and for the people," Shriver said. "I believe we should have thousands of groups like it, where...
...Catch-up Bomb...
Down 7-0, the Lafayette quarterback abandoned his short-passing attack and went for a catch-up quick bomb. The wind-aided aerial overflew the receiver and was picked off by Crimson corner-back Bill Cobb...
...catch-up effort soon became competition on more or less even terms. Diplomats from neutral nations claim that it will not matter much to them which country gets there first, since the other will probably be close behind. But of course it will matter-though not militarily. The moon, once thought of as invincible "high ground" from which to launch an attack on an earthly enemy, now seems beyond consideration as a rocket base. Any lunar-launched missile would take far longer (16 hours) to reach its target than its earth-based counterpart. It would be harder to guide, easier...
...Catch-Up. President Paul Jennings says that his I.U.E. members "know every bloody sentence" of the costly airline strike settlement. From both G.E. and Westinghouse, the I.U.E.-led unions are demanding, among other things, a guaranteed annual wage that would be automatically jacked...