Word: circularity
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...Circular Line. Thus, when Clark Clifford, McNamara's successor as Defense Secretary. went to Capitol Hill to request $227 million as a first installment on Sentinel, he ran into a skeptical Congress. In the Senate, Sentinel was opposed by a potent bipartisan coalition that included such normally defense-minded figures as Stuart Symington, a former Air Force Secretary, and Maine's Margaret Chase Smith. Their arguments: Sentinel is worthless and would merely prompt both the U.S. and the U.S.S.R. to build more offensive missiles. Eugene McCarthy interrupted his presidential campaign to denounce the ABM system on the Senate...
...result is a wave of construction projects resembling so many concrete-and-steel layer cakes. Manhattan's new Madison Square Garden is part of a development built on air rights atop Penn Station. Chicago's four-year-old circular Marina City apartment complex, already a city landmark, is built above the tracks of the Chicago and North Western Railway. In Newton, Mass., work began this month on a $40 million development-consisting, to start with, of a motel, a nine-story office building and a 650-car garage-that will straddle the bustling Massachusetts Turnpike...
...crucial argument Mr. Imam makes for his scheme is that it would make study and learning "circular" rather than "linear." For many non-science courses (Fine Arts, Ec. 1, Soc. Sci. 2) learning ought to be linear. As for the rest, it is not clear that a switch in the sequence of lectures and reading solves the problem. Students now miss significant points of lectures or forget them by the time they get to the reading. Under the new system they would miss the importance of much of the reading (save for bits they scurried back to reread after...
Rather, it would seem that human affairs should be approached in a circular manner, beginning with the incorporation of a total viewpoint. Once one has a conception, however vague it may be, of the whole field of play one can then proceed to ferret out the truths that it contains--much as a quarterback might spend some time sizing up the opposing team before he starts mapping his own strategies, instead of launching into all his tricks straightaway in the hope that he will learn by trial and error...
...three-man moon crew had been aboard, they would still have been safe enough. The makeshift maneuvers successfully inserted the third stage and the unmanned Apollo 6 spacecraft into a 218-mile by 113-mile elliptical orbit (instead of the planned 115-mile circular orbit). But there was more trouble to come...