Word: folded
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...while, pilots and engineers argued about the wing control. One faction held that when the pistol grip was pulled backward, the wings should fold backward in concert. Others insisted that since all pilots are trained to push engine throttles forward when they want more speed, they might get confused at a dangerous moment if they were compelled to pull the wing control backward for the same effect. The second faction won. Now, with a plane that can fly to any place in the world in a single day, F-111 pilots will still be handling controls as familiar and reliable...
...Democrats, who thought so little of his chances that he had withdrawn his candidacy as early as the seventh ballot. Socialist Pietro Nenni saw the way clear to a reconciliation with Saragat by backing him for the presidency; he saw, too, a chance to bring back into the Socialist fold those Social Democrats who had followed Saragat out of the party...
...account for almost 35% of the total work force, the Federation of Business and Professional Women has grown to 400 members. Bolivia's La Paz University currently counts 543 female students, a fourfold increase since 1950; the number of women in the schools of commerce has jumped 20-fold in five years. At Caracas' Central University, girls outnumber boys 2 to 1 in dentistry, 4 to 1 in pharmacy...
...being played by Julie Newmar, and typecasting has rarely had a brighter hour. A strong-minded, singleminded, career-minded girl with a unique sense of humor, Julie speaks in terse, direct and sometimes disarming sentences that seem to have been programmed on punch cards that say PLEASE DO NOT FOLD OR BEND. No method actress has ever found a more empathetical wave length with the character she is playing. "Rhoda is the ultimate consciousness," says Julie, "the ultimate reality, the ultimate freedom...
...judges. Senator Eastland was given this powerful position by the Democratic Senatorial Caucus. Seniority is not a law of the majority caucus and is frequently violated. However morally opprobrious, the Democratic rationale that the Eastlands had to be accommodated to keep Mississippi and the Deep South in the Democratic fold is no longer valid. Eastland and Senator Stennis of Mississippi did not support L.B.J., do not support the Kennedy-Johnson program, do not support the Democratic platform, do not support the right of all Americans to vote. No committee assignments should be given to those who opposed the Democratic platform...