Word: controls
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Nixon will get the Republican nomination, McCormack predicted, because he said President Eisenhower has let him take over "pretty good control of the party machinery" including influence on appointments, patronage and other matters...
...months since he seized power in Baghdad, wiry Strongman Karim Kassem has been obsessed by one problem: how to escape domination by Egypt's Gamal Abdel Nasser. To fight off the Arab nationalists in his midst, Kassem all but handed control of the Baghdad mob to the Communists, did not even intervene when the Reds organized a stone-throwing reception for U.S. Assistant Secretary of State William Rountree (TIME, Dec. 29). Last week, for the first time, there were signs that Kassem might have come to realize that Moscow's embrace can be even more crushing than Cairo...
...featuring endless gibes at "Western imperialism," Kassem promoted himself to the highest rank" in the Iraqi army (major general) and announced the formation of a new Baghdad garrison unit-the "Fifth Division," officered by men hand-picked for loyalty to the regime. Having thus assured him self of physical control of the capital, Kassem last week moved against two of the Communist-front organizations that have been keeping Baghdad in turmoil...
Chief advantages claimed for the Convair heart: its gentle hydraulic action is less damaging to the blood; its flowmeter is in the water system, not in the bloodstream itself, further reducing damage; by ingenious servomechanisms it provides automatic control of oxygenation and acidity; it can handle up to two gallons of blood a minute, against five quarts for present models. It needs only two men to tend it. If the power fails, it keeps running. If water pressure fails, it can be cranked by hand...
...alive, called Project Mercury, is distinct from the tests scheduled for the stub-winged X-15 already built by North American Aviation. Inc. Essentially an extra-tough airplane, the X-15 will climb into nearby space under its own rocket power and glide quickly back to earth under full control. Project Mercury's space capsule will be designed to achieve an around-the-earth orbit, but it will land passively by parachute...