Word: controlled
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Certainly, much is beyond Lindsay's or any Mayor's control. He is not only opposed on many issues by the Democratic City Council; the state legislature as well has a degree of control over city policies that is perhaps without parallel elsewhere in the U.S. The spectacular hike in welfare rolls is a direct result of heavy black migration from the South and a longtime influx of Puerto Ricans. Much of the budget, including welfare, is mandated by law. Inflation causes union to vie against union in looking to the city treasury...
...situation is without precedent in Communist history, and contrasts sharply with the post-Hungary period when the parties loyally supported Moscow, even though many members quit. Unless the Soviets can somehow reverse the trend, Czechoslovakia may mark a major and historic acceleration in Moscow's inability to control Communism. "In the past, individuals were driven by their conscience to question Soviet actions," says British Sovietologist Victor Zorza. "Now whole parties are questioning...
...finally appeared. Several piano companies, notably Wurlitzer, Baldwin and the CBS subsidiary Fender Rhodes, have developed electronic piano laboratories in which as many as 24 students, each with a piano, can be taught at the same time by a single teacher. All the students use earphones. From a master control panel at his own electronic piano, the teacher can speak or play to all or one of the students, or can listen to one or all over his own earphones. What a youngster plays is usually heard only by himself except at those moments when the teacher happens to switch...
They conducted scores of experiments, produced the first U.S. live TV shows from space and rendezvoused with their discarded Saturn 4B booster (see color pictures). More important, by checking out Apollo's control, navigation, communications and life-support systems, they confirmed that the craft was completely spaceworthy. If no unexpected difficulties are uncovered as technicians decipher the mountain of data that ac cumulated during the flight, an Apollo 8 crew composed of Frank Borman, James Lovell and William Anders may be sent into orbit around the moon with in as little as six weeks...
...always, Soviet officials were cautious and cryptic when they reported the results of the maneuver. The two ships, they said, had closed to within 650 feet of each other under "automatic control." Then Beregovoy took over and flew even closer. Whether he actually completed docking was not made clear...