Word: fasts
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...against the city's health code, repeated the maitre d'. So Shearing decided to make a case of it. "I don't want any exception for me," he said, "I want exceptions for every blind person and his dog." Chicago's officials could hardly agree fast enough. "To separate guide dogs from their masters would be like taking a person's eyes away from him," said Health Commissioner Samuel Andelman, and City General' Counsel Allen Hartman came up with a ruling that Leland and others like him are not really dogs but "gentlemen...
...accident probably would not have occurred. In future simulations, such checks will be run. Also, pure oxygen will not be used at 16 Ibs. per sq. in. during routine manned ground tests as it was that day: the higher pressure meant that the fire spread five times as fast as it would have in a normal atmosphere. A new quick-opening hatch is also being designed, and the surprising number of combustible items aboard-including the astronauts' own space suits and the craft's insulating foam-are being redesigned using materials that are more fire-resistant...
...problem could arise during any extravehicular activity, and the answer seems simple: haul in the tether. But in frictionless space, the free-floating astronaut is orbiting the spaceship as it circles the earth, and any attempt to pull him in would make him rotate around it so fast that he would be ultimately subjected to fatal G forces. He would also be moving at an uncontrollable speed when he finally reached-and crashed into-the spacecraft...
...prime rate-the interest rate that commercial banks charge blue-chip customers. The Board's decision was less a tribute to Lyndon than an acknowledgment of sorts to Chase Manhattan Bank President David Rockefeller, the first banker to lower the prime rate, and the man who held fast to his decision despite opposition from competitors...
...written and directed by a 27-year-old new-comer with complete control of his film, it has a uniformly fine cast, and the Lovin' Spoonful sing the background music, but the movie is not a stunning click-your-heels-in-the-air success. It's just a fresh, fast, clever movie...