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Manned Flybys. At a time when much of the scientific community is in favor of confining manned soace flight to the vicinity of the earth, Singer has grander plans. Although a manned mission past nearby planets would be physically trying, to say nothing of being more complicated and expensive than a series of unmanned probes, he feels that it could gather more scientific information. "Man can make experiments on the spot, based on what he has just observed," he says. Thus one manned flyby might well supply more information than many unmanned missions, each several years apart. Also, Singer points...
...passing on the street. They also include such emphatic events as the cocktail party. No less than the state and the family, the gathering has its own rules and laws. It is Goffman's contention that without the implicit obedience that these laws of behavior systematically command, the grander and more visible forms of human association would probably be unworkable. Society itself might fall apart...
Similarly, it is in our own interest to assist backward areas to do what they can do best (however badly that may be) in terms of what we need most-even if that involves our going back into food production on a grander scale...
...march King led in death through Atlanta proved grander-both in attendance and dedication to his ideals-than any he had led in life. Fully 200,000 Americans, black and white, walked the sun-beaten streets of the Peach State's capital in temperatures that reached 82° F. By 10:30 a.m., the nominal starting time, more than 35,000 Negroes and whites from as far away as Los Angeles and Boston had packed the side streets around the red brick Ebenezer Baptist Church on Auburn Avenue, where King had served as co-pastor with his father...
Carr's father, an immigrant from Rumania, used to hawk vegetables from a pushcart in Manhattan. Young Fred had grander ideas. He began hanging around brokerage board rooms when he was 14. Every dollar he made while in high school-some $500-he invested and promptly lost, but his infatuation with the stock market continued. A junior-year dropout from California State College, he amassed $10,000 in such small business ventures as building concrete aprons for driveways and operating a gas station, before going to work for Bache & Co. as an assistant broker at $217 a month...