Word: flow
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Huge Avalanche. In the air, the U.S. offensive continued without abatement. Chief target was one land action that has not slowed down: the steady flow of supplies and men from the north. American airmen have long been frustrated by the fact that the F-105 and F-4B fighter-bombers used for strikes against North Viet Nam are too small to haul enough bombs to completely smash roads and bridges. Last week the U.S. sent winging from Guam to North Viet Nam just the planes for the job: eight-engine B-52 jet bombers, armed with 630 tons of bombs...
...week's end FHA Commissioner Philip Brownstein forecast that mortgage money will soon begin to flow back into FHA loans. Said he: "I think that the worst of the money shortage is behind us." Many builders remained skeptical, if only because housing has long been recognized as the easiest big industry for Washington to turn on and off, simply by choking its mortgage money life line...
...research. Air Force Major Edward G. Givens Jr., 36, has been stationed at NASA's Houston headquarters, as project officer for a Buck Rogersish backpack to power space walks. Physicist Don L. Lind, a former Navy airman, helped devise a mechanism for measuring "solar wind"-charged particles that flow through space. Youngest of the lot at 28 is Navy Lieut. Bruce McCandless II, a doctoral candidate in electrical engineering at Stanford, whose father won the Medal of Honor aboard the U.S.S. San Francisco off Guadalcanal...
Their breathing apparatus-a system of tracheae that wander through the body like arteries of air-feeds oxygen to the organs up to 431 times as fast as lungs do. Their circulatory system frequently includes a mechanism that reverses blood flow when a clot obstructs the heart. A male moth's numerous "noses" are so keen that he can smell a female more than a mile away. And as for sex, insects hold the patents on mass reproduction. The East African queen termite lays 43,000 eggs a day, and in a single summer two common houseflies can multiply...
Peace Corps officials, however disagree. They are confident they can select out the "deadbeats" from a larger flow of volunteers. Neither would the volunteer spirit nor the quality of the applicants suffer. Draftees would still have to elect the Peace Corps over the army: the pay would be lower, the work harder, and the standards--with an increase in applicants--could be raised considerably. Moreover, the highly qualified body of college students, who now shun the Peace Corps for the greater security of graduate school, could now volunteer without fear of further obligation when they return to school...