Word: charting
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...intends to spend $5 billion of the sum this year and spread the remaining $7.5 billion over several years.) Even with the expected increase, the remarkable thing about the Pentagon's budget is that it has risen at a much slower rate than the overall budget (see chart), indicating that on balance the U.S. taxpayer is paying little more for defense today than he did a decade...
...most active part of it was in speculative stocks. Harris, Upham & Co. keeps an informal kind of risky-stock Dow-Jones of its own. Says Senior Vice President Ralph A. Rotnem, "According to our figures, this is the most speculative market since 1959." Harris, Upham's speculative chart, however, peaked in mid-December, has drifted down since. The new activity, and the strength that will churn up the 1000 mark, is in blue chips...
...young artillery officer, Westmoreland worked out a new logarithmic fire-direction and control chart that is still in use. During World War II he got a chance to try it out as commander of an artillery battalion in North Africa and Sicily. During ten months of front-line combat from Utah Beach to the Elbe, he had two bouts of malaria and a brush with a land mine that blew a truck out from under him but left him almost unscathed...
...Gynecologist William Howell Masters, 50, this sort of thing is not sufficiently precise or scientific. Ever since he graduated from the University of Rochester medical school in 1943, Masters has been determined to chart the basic physiology of sex. Next spring Little, Brown & Co. will publish Human Sexual Response, the extraordinarily detailed results of Dr. Masters' eleven years' work with his research associate, Psychologist Virginia E. Johnson...
...Gemini around one of its own axes-maneuvers that could fix its attitude in space. By working both controls simultaneously, Schirra was able to make his spacecraft respond as smoothly as a trained seal. Stafford, meanwhile, was busy with a circular slide rule and a heavily crosshatched plotting chart in his lap, checking the on-board computer's data and relaying information to Mission Control...