Word: construct
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Like some great Gothic cathedral, the draft system continues to grow and complicate itself. All the while, however, its two characterizing features are maintained: inequity and confusion. For an astounding number of years. Congress has politely averted its gaze and allowed the Selective Service System to construct an incredible edifice of unreasonable, bewildering, and unfair rules and sanctions. Congressional apathy continues, but the whole rotten draft structure is finally beginning to heave and high under its own weight. Student groups are staging little Berkeleys: civil rights organizations are protesting; corporate recruiters are voicing perplexity; college deans are wondering aloud; some...
With the SST in the offing, the monster passenger plane such as the 747 is considered by some to be little more than an interim aircraft. Pan American clearly had this in mind when it specified that Boeing construct its 747 planes strong enough to be converted into cargo carriers. Actually, the 747 and the SST will likely complement each other. For passengers who want to fly a long distance in a supersonic hurry, the SST will be available at premium rates; but such will be the low operating costs of the 747 that a customer who is willing...
...Space Systems Division of Avco Corporation in Lowell will construct the Pilgrim craft and might even design the launching craft, Huguenin said. This question will not be decided until the project gets final government approval expected early this summer...
...rural agricultural society to an urbanized, technological world. The effect has been to veil man from what he calls natural symbols?the seasonal pattern of growth?that in the past reminded men of their own finiteness. The question is, says Murray, "whether or not a contemporary industrial civilization can construct symbols that can help us understand...
Last year, Shepard had to construct a pitching staff from scratch. But the two hurlers he unearthed, and who accounted for 11 of the team's 12 wins, are returning: junior Jim McCandlish and senior John Scott...