Word: directing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...report of a committee of experts to the American Bar Association has again focused public attention on nagging flaws in the Electoral College system. The committee has recommended abolition of this anachronistic backwater of past days, proposing instead direct popular election of the President. In case no candidate should receive more than 40 per cent of the total vote, they recommend a run-off between the two major contenders...
...basal skull fracture and a $4,500,000 car-$112,000 of which was his own money. In 1964, he scored another first, setting records on both land (403 m.p.h.) and water (276 m.p.h.), but again there was a clinker: his land-speed mark applied only to direct-drive automobiles, because the U.S.'s Craig Breedlove had already clocked 407 m.p.h. in a free-wheeling jet-powered vehicle...
...volunteered for overseas mission work. Now she has no time to be bored. In 3½ years her Minh Quy hospital has admitted 12,000 different patients, and no one has counted the outpatients who show up for treatment during clinic hours. The Viet Cong give Dr. Smith no direct trouble, probably because the Montagnards have formed a living shield around the woman they now call Ya Pagang Tih-"Big Grandmother of All Medicine...
...launch inflatable satellites into synchronous orbits 22,300 miles above the earth. Opened up and inflated, the satellites would take the shape of disks 2,000 ft. in diameter, each with a highly reflective, mirror-like face. Using attitude-control jets, ground controllers could position the space mirrors to direct the reflected rays of the sun down toward the night side of the earth. The reflection could illuminate a circular area approximately 220 miles in diameter with nearly twice the brightness of the full moon...
...Board of Regents probably exemplify the feelings of most Californians about the non-students. At their emergency meeting on December 5, the Regents announced that they "oppose the participation of outsiders who instigate and direct violations of university rules." They also directed the administration to take immediate action to prevent non-students' "interference with campus activities...