Word: correctible
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...antipathy and lack of understanding that exists between Reed and Howell is tragic, because their views on what should be done are very close. Both accept the fact that payment by tonnage--rather than by hours--is the correct way to run a truck mine. Both maintain that the inefficient truck mines should close, although Reed thinks they will close themselves and Howell feels they should be forcibly shut down. Howell would be willing to settle for a guarantee of around $18-20 a day; Reed would quickly accept $15. And Reed is willing to pay the royalities even though...
...clearly the representative of the unmentionable absent reality-Big Brother. Somebody offers an explanation. Food distribution in the cities should not be underestimated. "Duck, chicken, even goose, and even the rarest bird in the world, the turkey, are sold ... as much as you like." At this officially correct explanation, "the all-seeing eye that had been watching them squinted mockingly at the luckless spies and dissolved in a yellow patch, the color of the wallpaper, as though it had never been there." Was the eye ever there at all? Tertz seems to be saying that the worst thing about...
...space flight; instead he has chosen to discuss possible developments in a myriad of scientific fields. One reason the book is so interesting is its scope, and any scientist reading it must acknowledge the author's skill as a science popularizer. His predictions are filled with easy but remarkably correct explanations of current work in various fields. In simplifying essential concepts, he consistently avoids that major pitfall of the popularizer, losing the basic meaning of the concepts to the field. Were he any simpler, he would be inaccurate; if he were more technical, he would bore and confuse most...
...familiar twin-jet Douglas B66 fitted out with oversize, swept-back wings. But a close look shows a more significant change. There are hundreds of paper-thin slots slicing through the wings' metal skin. And those slots, if the calculations of Northrop's Norair Division scientists prove correct, may well revolutionize the aircraft industry...
Shift & Run. Fortunately for Ford, McNamara's methods also left it operating at peak efficiency and able to move quickly to correct its products' weaknesses. Racing is designed to bring the speed worshipers back to Ford; the 1964 T-Birds, Falcons and Comets will boast drastic styling changes to attract lovers of change. Both the Ford and Lincoln-Mercury divisions are paying dealers rebates of from $75 to $165 per car for every sale over set quotas. "We're almost through shifting gears," says a top Ford official. "We're going to give...