Word: designate
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Design for Living...
...Pentagon was so unaccustomed to common effort that early in his career McNamara was called on to personally, preside over an assay of butchers' smocks to select one design for all services. He soon established the Defense Supply Agency for such activities. He also created the Defense Intelligence Agency to coordinate previously scattered intelligence efforts, and centralized other key functions. Under McNamara, the concept and practice of systems analysis were introduced. The goal: scientific evaluation of major weapons developments and other expensive projects to determine as objectively as possible the return for a proposed investment compared with that...
Less Plausible. A closer look reveals the harsh realities. For all its outward appearance, East German Boss Walter Ulbricht's New Wall is even less passable-even, in fact, less plausible-than the crude barrier that first shocked the world six years ago. Ulbricht's new design (see diagram) has been conceived with chilling efficiency; to test it, the East Germans erected a prototype at an army camp, rounded up some of the country's best athletes and let them try to cross the barriers without interference. None could makeit. Ulbricht has already completed nearly a third...
...safety commission from New York State showed off a design for a four-passenger Safety Sedan, developed under a $385,000 contract by Fairchild Killer Corp.'s Republic Aviation Division. Billed as a car to be developed with "an aeronautical approach," the sedan could, according to the safety commission, be mass-produced as cheaply as Detroit's lower-priced models, be far ahead in safety. Though New York State has no plans to build it, the design has such features as four-wheel drive for maximum traction and resistance to skidding, an all-window defrosting system, four roll...
...aircraft maintenance and the training of ground and pilot crews-but not stewardesses-on both airlines' 490-passenger Boeing 747 jumbo jets, due for delivery starting in 1969. Meanwhile, to cut capitalization costs as well as facilitate joint servicing, TWA will work with Boeing to make sure that design specifications on both fleets, covering everything from cockpit layout to cabin color schemes, are the same...