Word: discussing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...assistants, he said, overruled the board's recommendation-logically enough-on grounds that North American had more space experience, and had submitted cost estimates that were 30% to 40% lower than Martin's. The biggest howl against Webb was raised when he refused repeatedly to discuss in open session a NASA staff report that was harshly critical of North American's early work on the Apollo. The problems of workmanship and management have since been corrected (TIME, May 12), Webb maintained, and to make them public now would only hamper NASA's relationship with North American...
Women's editors keep in step with medicine. They routinely discuss pregnancy, the pill, abortion, menopause. Mrs. Brazier not only reported the phenomenon of infant crib deaths in Seattle; she ran photos of babies who had died, including the children of socially prominent families. Observing that the use of oral contraceptives in some cases enlarged women's breasts, the Atlanta Journal's Edith Hills Coogler interviewed the local Lovable brassiere manufacturer, who lovably agreed that he had to do some tinkering with his production line...
...America can take heart from her comment: "In recent years, we in Russia have begun to think, to discuss, to argue, and we are not so much automatically devoted any more to the ideas which we were taught...
...Aden of being "traitors and agents" and called upon them to resign and do penance. Traveling further afield, he claimed that West Germany, which he does not recognize, is "subjected to America." Then he sat down with the visiting Foreign Minister of Communist East Germany, Otto Winzer, to discuss opening diplomatic relations with that country...
Even in the 75% of his cases that resemble any other district judge's-from bankruptcy to counterfeiting-Johnson is a judge of rare innovation. Before handing out sentences in open court, for example, he follows the unusual practice of inviting all defendants and their families to discuss presentencing reports in the privacy of his chambers. His compassion is evident in even the most minor cases-many of which inevitably involve race. In one, a white man had allegedly hired four Negroes to help him steal peanuts from a federal warehouse. The jury acquitted the white man, convicted...