Word: forwardness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Highway crash research today stands approximately where the physical sciences stood two centuries ago and medicine stood fifty years ago. To move forward with any expectation of closing the gap it is essential to establish carefully elaborated and comprehensive national goals against which to measure performance...
That's why I'm looking forward to being in the army as opposed to Harvard. Because there I can work and get exercise and although I'll have to take crap and people will order me around all the time, my mind will be free. Nobody there is going to make use of my mind. What will be required of me will be crude enough so I can stand outside of it. Whereas here what's required of me is the utilization of my most personal and most difficult ability--the ability to reform my mind...
Having played both defenseman and forward in his career, he feels more at ease on defense. "The play's always in front of you when you're on defense, and you get more of a chance to hit people," he said...
Also in Hué early in the week was Correspondent David Greenway. Moving with a Marine company at the Citadel, Greenway decided to go forward with a squad that was assigned to knock out a North Vietnamese army machine-gun post. As the squad reached a wall still standing amid the rubble, a Marine stood up to look through what had been a window, and an enemy soldier shot him through the neck. Greenway and a medical corpsman dragged the victim to the company command post, and once out of the line of fire, laid him down on a road...
...continuing trouble with the Boeing Co.'s design for its swing-wing B-2707. There were hints of such problems last fall, when the company announced that it was stretching the 306-ft. craft by 12 ft. and adding a pair of stubby movable wings on the forward part of its fuselage. Goofs and glitches always creep into the early blueprints for any new aircraft, but lately Boeing President William M. Allen has been telling airline customers that engineering "miscalculations" were serious enough to send the SST "back to the drawing boards." They involve questions of aerodynamics, air flow...