Word: fixes
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...only action is inaction. But to mistake the story for the subject is to assume that a pearl is about grit. Amateur Novelist Lampedusa's real interest and achievement is to fashion an elegy for a predemocratic way of life, to evoke the melodramatic landscape of Sicily and fix its people against the backdrop of Italy's struggle for unification, like figures on a frieze...
Scrounged Parts. Only one satellite is needed for an accurate navigational fix, but when the Navy's system is operational in 1962, four satellites will crisscross in a synchronization planned to serve all quarters of the earth. The advantage to commercial shipping will be slight, since present methods are more than adequate. But the military significance is great, may solve the major problem of missile shots from submarines: determining the exact distance and direction from the sub to the target. Cruising underwater far off the beaten track and out of loran's range, a nuclear submarine will...
Single Problem. In popular cynicism, Geneva is a place where both sides, with no intention of settling anything, play pass-the-hot-potato, seeking to fix on the other fellow the public opprobrium for failing to agree. But that was not the atmosphere in last week's sessions. The West set out to relieve Soviet suspicions that inspection was not meant merely to pry into Soviet affairs. Russians could "abandon now" any hope that the West would lay down its arms without advance safeguards, said Eaton-but he was not thinking of "hordes of inspectors." Nor was the West...
...Circuit Breaker Co. and Federal Pacific Electric Co. conspired to submit "noncompetitive, collusive and rigged bids" on private and government business valued at $209 million a year. The grand jury also indicted G.E., Westinghouse, I-T-E Circuit Breaker and nine other electrical-equipment makers for conspiring to fix prices on sales of another $55 million a year...
...last seen heading back to the city, "where the children of God lay sleeping." Author O'Connor tells this bizarre plot with her own brand of authority; her hard prose seems armed with staring, baleful eyes. The reader may shudder in distaste, but those eyes fix and hold him. And yet, while her handling of God-drunk backwoodsmen is based in religious seriousness, it seldom seems to rise above an ironic jape. It is this suggestion of the secure believer poking bitter fun at the confused and bedeviled that lingers in the mind after the tale is ended-rather...