Word: grounds
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...TRAGIC GROUND, Erskine Caldwell...
...head of Pratt Institute, Oxnam had the trustees' approval to oversee all operations of the seminary as well as Drew's secular departments. Annoyed at their loss of control over budgets and policy, the seminary professors were furious when Oxnam vetoed a proposed faculty appointment on the ground that the salary offered the man was too high. Seminary Dean Charles W. Ranson then signed a confidential letter of complaint to the trustees-an action that Oxnam used as an excuse for firing him. Although Oxnam was backed by the trustees and by a special investigative committee appointed...
...buttons." Curiously, the buttons do tend to resemble one another in all but size. The 48-minute Symphony, inspired by wartime patriotism, swoops from brassy fanfare to keening funeral march with a sure theatrical sense that never quite obscures its melodic poverty; the Concerto-Rhapsody covers much the same ground in about half the time, and was partially redeemed at the Washington performance by the dazzling virtuosity and superlative mugging of Soviet Cellist Mstislav Rostropovich...
Undismayed, ground controllers under the direction of Flight Director Eugene Kranz, 34, quickly determined that nothing was basically wrong with the descent engine. Bypassing LM's computer, they ordered the descent engine to fire again. This time, and on a subsequent test, it performed perfectly, burning for the entire 26-second period. Had astronauts been aboard the LM, said George Mueller, NASA's director of manned flight, they would have almost certainly recognized the problem and immediately refired the engine before they crashed onto the moon...
Electrically charged SSTs would actually provide a visual dividend. Ionization of the air in front of the planes would produce a corona discharge that would be seen as a bright blue glow in the dark. "When supersonic traffic gets heavy," says Cahn, "this could provide observers on the ground with a spectacular view at night...