Word: desk
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...tousled, and bright-eyed with the dream that gave Germany its V-2 and the U.S. its first orbiting satellite, bull-shouldered Wernher von Braun paced the yellow-walled office in Building 4488, nerve center of the Army Ballistic Missile Agency at Huntsville, Ala. Already on his cluttered mahogany desk last week was a new satellite assignment: preparing a Jupiter-C to power Explorer II into space late this month. More work was on the way; called by the telecommunications room, Space Engineer von Braun hurried down the hall, talked to Defense Department Missile Director William Holaday in Washington, turned...
...professional economist, but springs from the collaboration of a lawyer and a philosopher. Four years ago Philosopher Mortimer (The Syntopicon) Adler decided that the 400 Great Books were about to have company. That was when a 600-page manuscript on the theory of capitalism thudded onto his desk at his Institute for Philosophical Research in San Francisco. The author: a hornrimmed, bow-tied corporation lawyer named Louis O. Kelso. Except for Kelso's wife, Adler was the first person to see the book; U.S. readers will see it shortly under the sweepingly simple title Capitalism. So challenging did Adler...
...down in his press conference. Taken aback by the impression of relaxation read into his press-conference statement, the President said in his G.O.P. speech in Chicago last week: "In this I intend to participate personally until the job is done." Three specific reform proposals have already reached his desk: 1) streamline McElroy 's own personal Defense Secretary operation, 2 *) give McElroy power to shift funds between services, 3 ) create a central strategic military planning group under McElroy...
...Montijo, Countess of Teba and sister-in-law of the Duke of Alba. Bounding furiously back to Paris, poor Miss Howard got a second blow. All the locks in her boudoir had been smashed, the contents of her wardrobe thrown on the floor, her desk's secret drawer torn out. The secret police had done such a thorough job that she "no longer possessed a single letter from the Emperor Napoleon...
...monarch, notes Author Maurois, "owed her five million gold francs" (about three million modern dollars). In her desk, "tied with the thin silk ribbon known as a 'favour,' " Miss Howard cherished the dear evidence-a huge collection of signed receipts, along with impassioned love letters, proposals for "tightening such dear links" (marriage?), promises to "raise her to the position she deserved" (empress...