Word: firmnesses
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...This finding alone was enough to interest the National Aeronautics and Space Administration. But ever since making the first one, Dr. Marton has been thinking of more applications for his discovery. Two of the flexi-firm tethers, attached to either side of an astronaut's belt, could be clamped anywhere on the spacecraft, effectively fixing him in position and thereby giving him work stability and leverage. Thicker, stronger versions could be used as construction parts in space and on the moon. Shipped aloft coiled, they could then be set permanently in any needed position by turning a cable-tightening...
...thrusts at Reagan, directed at the Republican's "inexperience" and "extremism," were blunted by Spencer-Roberts, the actor's campaign management firm that had begun second-guessing Brown early in 1965. Under their direction, Reagan turned the issue of his inexperience, which could have been a liability, into an asset; he claimed to be a "citizen politician," which somehow implied that Brown was not a knowledgeable pro but merely a used-up, corner-cutting political hack. And although Brown's staff unearthed every right-wing statement Reagan ever made, the issue of his "extremism" became irrelevant. After...
...Fitzgerald's letter was filed away at Charles Scribner's Sons in Manhattan, along with the publishing house's correspondence with hundreds of other authors, including George Santayana, Edith Wharton, Rudyard Kipling and that bright young man Hemingway. Last week Charles Scribner Jr. announced that his firm was donating the archives of its 121 years in the business to Princeton University. As a first installment, he gave Princeton President Robert Goheen the Fitzgerald file, including 468 letters and 1,248 other documents...
...consumer sentiment, Michigan's Dr. George Katona reported an upturn from the November-December low. Higher-income families especially were satisfied that they would either make more money this year than last or at least make as much as last year. Moreover, retail prices are generally holding firm and even falling in scattered instances; in Miami last week, the Winn-Dixie supermarket chain threw out trading stamps and sliced its prices. Ketchup, for example, went from 27? to 19? a bottle...
Pinkerton's National Detective Agency, the firm that made "private eye" a popular phrase, finally went public last week. Under fourth-generation President Robert A. Pinkerton II, the family-owned firm, which has used "We Never Sleep" as a motto and an unblinking eye as its trademark while running up a record for running down all sorts of criminals, is now a quarry itself-for investors. Pegged at $23 a share when it went on sale, $6,900,000 worth of Pinkerton stock soon sold...