Word: gatherings
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...thrust engine powered by an exotic combination of liquid oxygen (lox) and liquid hydrogen (LH2). While lox boils off at a difficult -290° F., LH2 boils at -423° F., thus requires extreme pressurization to keep cool. Moreover, in weightless space, LH2, like mercury, tends to gather into a ball or spin off into tiny globs; simply to feed the fuel from tank to engines, the second stage was equipped with three fast-burning rockets that exerted enough G force to start the LH2, flowing. All went smoothly, and after 7½ minutes of burn, Saturn was 170 miles...
...them still in their 30s or early 40s-also serve as management consultants, economic forecasters and raisers of venture capital. Last year the firm arranged $604 million worth of corporate mergers, sold $946 million of securities by privately placed financing, and marketed $1 billion in municipal bonds. Top Lehmanites gather daily in what must be one of the New World's most Old World corporate dining rooms, savor epicurean food prepared by a former chef of Le Pavilion restaurant. There they discuss ice-breaking new ways of investing-and making-money. Explains Bobby Lehman: "Investment banking is applying money...
...gather that to the many other arts has now been added the art of the book-jacket....To stand by any book-stall or to enter any book-shop is to witness a terrific scene of Internecine warfare between the Innumerable latest volumes, almost all of them violently vying with one another for one's attention, fiercely striving to outdo the rest in crudity of design and of colour. It is rather like visiting the parrot-house in the Zoological Gardens, save that there one can at least stop one's ears with one's fingers, whereas here one merely...
...project for a Chicago Convention Hall where 50,000 people could gather in unobstructed space beneath a gigantic trussed roof 720 ft. square...
...over town and quietly haunting the men's clubs? A job for 007? Quite. Sofia Author Andrei Gulyashki, 51, celebrated behind the Iron Curtain as Communism's answer to Ian Fleming, was in London to do a little spying on "James Bond's town" and gather background for his new counterespionage epic, Avvakum Zakhov Meets James Bond. Chunky Gulyashki made it no secret that Communist Superagent Zakhov, armed mainly with "strict logic and a superior mind," will try to defeat the capitalist lout in a "struggle to create a society of free and dignified people...