Word: complexities
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...would shake hands with the man at the pump, greet the mechanic, stride into the diner for a word with the fry cook and a cup of coffee with the customers. The Iowa traveler was Leo Hoegh (pronounced hoig), and he was engaged in one of the most complex processes in American politics: running for governor...
...case of Iowa's Leo Hoegh, the combination of national and local factors is as complex and complete as if some diabolical political chemist had poured together strains of virus out of every test tube in the laboratory. An honest, able governor, he has improved roads, schools and state institutions, has worked tirelessly and successfully to increase his state's industrial potential and to ease its agricultural woe. But he is in trouble...
...girl, tragically violates both the law and a relentless social code-stands in as fissuring a relationship to his bigoted Puritan father (Finlay Currie) as to his narrow, unresponsive wife. There are half a dozen sources of voltage and half a dozen reasons for crossed wires; and such a complex of race and religion, of family and sex, cannot be cut down without having something like the heart of it cut out. Adapter Libott has nowhere vulgarized the story, Director John Stix has nowhere sensationalized the storytelling, Scene Designer George Jenkins has almost everywhere intensified the atmosphere, but there...
...tubes, and they will get their information from all of the airplane's sensing instruments. The computer will be able to watch more instruments than the pilot's eyes and brain could possibly handle. If asked to do so by the pilot, it could come to a complex decision and act upon it in the second or so that is all future flight speeds will permit...
Back to the Bazaar. No expert in the field believes more strongly in the future of shopping centers than Jim Rouse, whose Baltimore mortgage-banking and research firm has helped develop 33 shopping centers from Toronto to Omaha. Through complex market research Rouse, who has a part-interest in six of the centers he has developed, not only decides where to build a new shopping center but can estimate in advance the revenue per sq. ft. It took him seven years and 4,000 separate mathematical calculations to decide on the exact location of Mondawmin, where the anticipated revenue...