Word: complexities
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...editors and readers-as briefing officers warned them-that they were there for a test shoot, and that one of three missile tests turns out to be a flop-nik. With perhaps half a dozen exceptions, the press corps at Cape Canaveral had no grounding in the infinitely complex mechanics of missilery. In any event, since word of a scheduled firing spreads fast on the missile beat-postponement of last week's scheduled Atlas test was known to the press within a few hours-most of the newsmen who blanketed the Vanguard shoot would have been there with...
...helper, to Italy's midget-car giant, Fiat. It was Innocenti's second big challenge to Fiat. The first he won handily. He maneuvered Fiat out of its share of a joint Fiat-Innocenti contract to build a $342 million Venezuelan mine-to-mill steel complex on the Orinoco River to exploit a nearby mountain of high-grade (up to 60%) ore. Innocenti left Italy a year ago, planned to spend a few days looking into the Venezuelan prospects. The more he looked the better he liked what he saw; after five months he told the Venezuelan government...
...professor's time goes to his graduate students and his research, not to his lectures and office hours or even the meeting of committees concerned with undergraduate affairs. If the academic profession is subsidizing anyone it is the graduate student. The small courses, the obscure and ancient volumes, the complex scientific apparatus are only really useful to the graduate student...
...traffic around Cambridge Common will be established for a trial period starting March 1, under an ordinance passed by the City Council yesterday. The change is part of a plan to have a complex of one-way streets surrounding the Common and the Yard...
...DEATH IN THE FAMILY, by James Agee. A hymn to life, sung in the story of a man's death and the complex of feelings that course through the hearts and minds of his family. The novel's greatest strength is in its delicacy, the most unusual effects gained from a loving knowledge of the tragedy that underlies the usual...