Word: errants
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...each week, and the experiment will be closely watched by interested broadcasters and hopeful viewers all over the U.S. There is even something interesting for nonsubscribers in Hartford. If they happen to turn on the channel, they see an attractively patterned, cubist tessellation of arms, torsos, scattered heads and errant thighs. It might well have been borrowed from Manhattan's Museum of Modern...
...range safety officers at Cape Canaveral and other U.S. missile centers have a recurrent nightmare. A missile is climbing out perfectly; everything works, and there is no need to press the "destruct" button that sends a special radio signal racing after an errant missile and commands it to blow itself to bits. Yet suddenly the destruct system is activated, and the missile, possibly with a man atop it, explodes in a blossom of flame. The odds against such a mishap are small, but there is always a chance that an unintended signal perhaps from a badly adjusted ham radio...
...specified number of seconds. After the motor shut off, Ranger III locked itself to the sun again and turned its dish antenna toward the earth. Finally it reported, detail by detail, that it had obeyed its orders. But the last-minute midcourse correction was too small. Because of its errant launch, Ranger III still could not score a bull...
...playing Dartmouth in Hanover last Saturday, the Crimson combined some lackadaisical rebounding and errant shooting to lose its first Ivy game...
Herold C. Hunt is an intriguing mixture of conflicting elements. He is on the one hand, the knight errant, ready to serve anywhere in the country because of love of challenge, his strong sense of responsibility, and his devotion to a firm set of principles mostly based on religious beliefs. On the other, challenge blends with ambition, responsibility with promotion and principle with tactics. Yet the blend has been a rewarding one both for the Charles W. Eliot Professor at the Graduate School of Education and for the millions of people indebted to him for his services. The origins...