Word: fitness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...step: "Reject everyone over 50 or under 20 plus everyone called Murphy"); retirement problems (the aging top man must be made to retire "while still able to do the work better than anyone else" or his second in command will enter "the Age of Frustration [and] will never be fit for anything else"); and the high art of spotting key people at cocktail parties ("Their arrival will be at least half an hour after the party begins" and they will rotate about the room clockwise, shunning the walls where the "nobodies" are "deep in conversation with people they meet every...
Perkins felt that the answer to overcrowding would be better overcome if the College "cut back" so that "you can fit" students in the Houses. The University," he maintained, "should gear admissions to the equipment it's got to handle...
...committed itself to pass on to the rest of the world, including Russia, scientific information obtained from IGY programs, so it seemed desirable, to the NSC (and to IGY scientists too) to keep Vanguard from getting deeply involved with top-secret military programs. Also, Administration policymakers, in a fit of touchiness about neutralist opinion, wanted to avoid any appearance of using IGY undertakings for military purposes...
Have Wit, Will Fit. In Manhattan, a college grad advertised in the New York Times for a job, listed his qualifications: "Have Brain, Will Train...
...They all fit together competently, and they all smile well...