Word: exacts
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...carryover to natural reading situations was disappointingly small. Also, it was shown that the part of the retina sensitive enough to see the printed line can accommodate clearly only about one-half inch of any printed line. Optometric research has proven that letters one-half inch from the exact point of fixation are seen with only fifty per cent acuity. (In 1951, John Kennedy rounded up a few of his friends and they commuted to Baltimore once a week for a mechanical speed reading course. Kennedy graduated reading 1500 words per minute...
Starting Point. Whichever it was, it came just before the release of the massive, nine-volume NASA report on the fire, due for delivery early this week to the House Committee on Science and Astronautics. By all accounts, the report does not pinpoint the exact cause of the fire and suggests that no absolutely precise blame will ever be fixed. But it does list two or three possible causes-all of them involving electrical malfunctions-and states that the trouble almost certainly started in or near one of the wiring bundles located to the left and just in front...
Financially, the church is thriving too. The vast Mormon-owned business enterprises-ranging from Utah's largest department store to a 360,000-acre Florida cattle ranch-help produce an income that some church observers estimate at $1,000,000 per day. The exact total is a closely guarded church secret...
...affair is viewed, or rather voyeured, by an unnamed narrator. In the hazy New-Novel fashion, the exact locale is uncertain: it may be Autun, or it may be Auxerre. And the events described may have happened or they may have been invented. As the narrator puts it: "I see myself as an agent provocateur or a double agent, first on one side-that of truth-and then on the other...
...exact amount of an increase would not be determined until next year. The last increase came in 1960, when board rose $15 to the current rate...