Word: esotericism
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Both Smith and Frazier have conducted vigorous campaigns during the past several weeks, visiting members in their rooms and soliciting their votes by mail. The candidates do not differ politically--both are liberals--so the contest has been fought on a more esoteric basis.
Up from Disney. Packard and Hewlett have made a success out of two deceptively simple decisions: to make nothing but electronic measuring instruments, and to insist on rigid standards of quality. At Hewlett-Packard, specialization is only relative. The company's catalogue lists more than 900 devices designed for...
Macmillan did not dare attempt the tune, merely declaimed the words sonorously. But the astute owners of a London satirical sheet called Private Eye snipped the passage from a tape recording of Macmillan's speech and re-recorded it, with backing from a twangy rock-'n'-roll...
Last week, with most of the Kennedys looking on, the President handed out the foundation's first awards for outstanding achievement. The story of the awards was buried under a layer of headlines about Jack Kennedy's first public appearance with Adlai Stevenson since the furor over Stevenson...
Splintering Fragments. At California's Aerojet-General Corp., another esoteric operation called ''fissio-chemistry" uses the enormous energy of fissioning uranium to slam molecules together. So far, the most promising product of the process is hydrazine, a derivative of which is used as highenergy, self-igniting fuel...