Word: fasters
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Europe in the Treaty of Tilsit, the site for preliminary talks was an elaborate barge anchored in the River Memel in Prussia. The precedence problem was solved by having the two monarchs set out simultaneously for the barge from the river banks; Napoleon, naturally, provided himself with the faster boat and arrived first...
...came from a shabby-genteel Maryland family, absorbing from that background both a breadth of interests and a sympathy for other havenots. He helped support himself in college by peddling jokes to newspapers for $1 each. He ground out several pulp novels before The Jungle, and he read even faster than he wrote: in one two-week Christmas holiday, he got through all of Shakespeare's plays and Milton's poetry...
...gloomy. For one thing, many faculty members resent the fact that Hayakawa was named without the approval of the "president-selection committee"-of which Hayakawa himself was a member. Dr. Nathan Hare, the Negro coordinator of the college's black-studies program, promptly predicted: "Hayakawa will go out faster than Smith. He takes the hard line. We'll be ready for him." Militant students promised picketing and demonstrations if the campus is reopened; they even threatened to call strikes on some of the other campuses in the 18-college state system...
There is one final, crucial phase or Apollo 8's mission: reentry. As it plunges back to earth, traveling some 7,000 m.p.h. faster than a returning earth-orbit mission, Apollo will have to re-enter the atmosphere at an angle no greater than 7.4° nor less than 5.4°. Reentry at too steep an angle would cause too sudden a deceleration. The force on Apollo and its occupants could then exceed 20 g's, and friction with the atmosphere would heat the spacecraft far above its design limits. Says Lieut. General Samuel Phillips, Apollo program director...
...nimbler and more imaginative than some of the hidebound old giants. Medium-sized outfits like Iowa Beef Packers, Inc.-which was listed by FORTUNE among the top ten companies for return on invested capital in 1967-have built their slaughterhouses and packing facilities close to livestock farms. Frequently offering faster deliveries than the larger firms, these "independent" packers have forced the giants to admit that they must modernize...