Word: gung-ho
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...Gung-Ho. Pickering nourishes no such sentimental attachment to the past. Faced with the touchy problem of whether JPL could build a 447-lb. Mariner, he dug into his work with the quiet devotion that is much more characteristic of him than his loud Explorer forays into Washington officialdom. He held endless meetings, consulted everybody worth a hearing. One scientist who heard that a pet instrument would have to be abandoned on the newer, smaller satellite got so emotional that he was almost fired to keep the peace. Pickering never lost his composure. "I had to establish," he says...
Thinking Big. Sometimes civic leadership and gung-ho spirit revive a dying place. The population of Clarksville, Mo., declined from 800 in 1940 to 338 in 1960. The town had no doctor or dentist. Three out of every four youngsters in each new crop of high school graduates departed for more promising places. But under the leadership of a local automobile dealer, Milton Duvall, a group of townspeople formed a development corporation with capital of $132,000. Its first project was a $50,000 medical center; dedicated in mid-1961, it quickly attracted a doctor and a dentist. Since then...
...over Chicago. 49-0 over Philadelphia). But in this league of experts, it is an article of faith that on a given Sunday any team can beat any other. Everyone was gunning for the Packers, giving it the old college try. Finally, on Thanksgiving Day in Detroit, the gung-ho Lions took the Packers apart, pad by pad. In the first half, Detroit's massive linemen smothered Green Bay Quarterback Bart Starr for losses that totaled 79 yds.; the Lions built up a 23-0 lead and held...
...such gung-ho spirit, the ferocious Lions on Thanksgiving Day went after Green Bay and, in full sight of a nationwide TV audience, showed that the Packers were vincible. Shooting holes in the nervous Packer defense, the Lions' Quarterback Milt Plum fired two quick touchdown passes to End Gail Cogdill for a 14-0 lead early in the second quarter. And when the Packers got the ball, the Lions' crushing defense made it even more embarrassing. The first time Packer Quarterback Bart Starr faded back to pass, he was dumped for a 15-yd. loss. Again and again...
...Russian mind. One observation is that Russian students almost never adorn their rooms with pictures of Marx, Lenin or Khrushchev; another is that they are far less interested in cold-war quarreling than in hot questioning about U.S. music, literature and living. "There isn't much gung-ho Communism here," says one American...