Word: corrects
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Although Nikita Khrushchev suddenly discovered urgent business in Kiev, the Kremlin was stiffly correct about it all, sent out its chief dialectician, lanky, austere Mikhail Suslov, to meet the visitors. Head of Peking's seven-man mission: Teng Hsiao-ping, secretary-general of the Chinese Communist Party. As Teng stepped out of a Soviet TU-104 jet, a crowd of Chinese residents in Moscow, watched closely by a Chinese army colonel, sent up a cheer...
Such obsessions-if the criminal charges against him are correct-led Beckwith to the assassination of Negro Leader Medgar Evers. In the honeysuckle patch where the killer hid, police found an abandoned rifle. FBI agents traced its ownership to Beckwith, a gun collector; they also identified a fingerprint on the weapon as Beckwith's. Arrested by the FBI, Beckwith was turned over to state authorities, who are demanding that he be sentenced to death...
...inch in diameter were found inside transistors in the Polaris missile, the Air Force has insisted that all the transistors in missile components be Xrayed. Companies have discovered that "preventive" testing produces safer and more efficient products, and also cuts costs by making it easier to detect and correct flaws. Manufacturers of machinery and airframes spend 13% of their production costs on nondestructive testing, are convinced that otherwise they would lose 45% of their production because of faulty quality. "Every time you have to do something over again," says Lockheed Aircraft Tester Harvey Christen, "you duplicate your original cost. Nondestructive...
There is one phrase in it, however, I would like to correct. Your text reads: ". . . aside from having to display some Remington cowboy art that he loathes...
...moon moves along a mildly deformed circle. Such a course would be explainable for a satellite that was moving in the opposite direction from the earth's rotation at the time it was captured. But the moon now revolves in the same direction, and to prove his theory correct. Dr. Alfven somehow had to account for the change...