Word: grander
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Beyond the immediate value of the burgeoning U.S. presence in Thailand lies a grander purpose. "We're trying to apply the lessons of Viet Nam to Thailand early in the game," says a top American military official. By laying a sound infrastructure of ports, highways and airstrips, bottlenecks like that currently plaguing the American buildup in Viet Nam are not likely to develop. When the bases and roads are completed, entire U.S. divisions could be airlifted into Thailand in a day's time from American bases in the Pacific or from the U.S. itself...
...grander scale, the Los Angeles engineering firm of Ralph M. Parsons Co. has proposed a scheme to tap the vast water reserves of northern Canadian rivers. Called NAWAPA, for North American Water and Power Alliance, the project would channel the waters to the Canadian prairies, 33 U.S. states, and three states of northern Mexico, opening up in Mexico alone eight times as much irrigated land as in the Aswan Dam region. But NAWAPA would cost $60 billion to $100 billion and take more than 30 years to complete...
...Grander Goals. Gemini 5 drifted along with one of the two fuel cells shut down to control the water buildup. Asked Cooper: "You think we might make it, huh?" "Looks like it," replied Carnarvon tracking station in Australia. Kraft broke in: "We're sure...
...eight, a total of 642 man-hours in space to the Russians' 507, 120 revolutions on a single trip to the Russians' 81. Gemini 5 was a crucial stage in the buildup for man's journey beyond the earth orbit. With each mission, the goals became grander. Gemini 6, scheduled as a two-day flight to go up Oct. 25, will attempt to rendezvous and dock with an Agena rocket in orbit. Next year's Gemini 7 aims to go for 14 days -the maximum amount of time required for a lunar round trip and landing...
...committee of 40, appointed to administer the unexpected riches, sponsors an annual Gibran festival and maintains a Gibran museum that charges admission and turns a modest profit. Plans for a grander museum, for a hospital, for a literary contest in his memory, have had to wait while the committee settles quarrels among its own membership and disputes in court with lawyers representing Marianna Gibran, the poet's sister, who lives in Boston and was not remembered in his will...