Word: controlled
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Among the "condemned" officials who have ignored the charges based on these dossiers is Provost Buck, whom Sargent has criticized for allegedly using "financial manipulation" to control academic policy...
...Arena management, called some 59 minutes of penalties on the two teams. Some of their calls were bistantly wrong, such as the center zone check called on Al Key in the second period, and others were questionable. Worst of all, they let the game get out of control midway in the second period. Either from dullness or myopia, they missed penalties, and the players, thus encouraged in their illegal methods, proceeded to reduce the game to a slugging match...
...These are true guided missiles," said the Air Force, "which can be launched in one direction, then changed in their flight to hit another target." The steering is done by the four fins in the rocket's tail. The Air Force did not explain how the fins are controlled from the ground, and admitted that the degree of control is "not great...
...Weather Bureau has little faith in weather control. Last year the weathermen announced that they had tried seeding clouds with dry ice and found the trick does not work (TIME, Dec. 6). Last week the bureau's chief, Dr. Francis W. Reichelderfer, told a Manhattan meeting of the American Meteorological Society and the Institute of the Aeronautical Sciences that man-made weather is a very unreliable project. The dry ice method may work locally under special conditions, said Reichelderfer, but the physical forces in full-scale weather are too big to be affected...
Fisher said that this group had considered wrecking the NSA, packing the Student Council, infiltrating into the Liberal Union, smearing candidates as communists, and distributing birth control pamphlets under the name of prominent NSA officers...