Word: hearings
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...hear Bob talk, there's nothing to it, really. "I just jump," he says. Sprinting down the runway, he powers off the board, "windmilling" through the air until the last instant, when he extends his legs way out ahead of him-and sometimes plops right back down on his fanny, spoiling the jump. But most often Beamon defies gravity and thrusts himself forward. No one can explain quite how. Nor do track buffs understand much else that Beamon does. A 9.5-sec. sprinter in the 100, he races through his approach at a speed generally considered too tiring...
...turn, Peterson pressed Bell & Howell to become "more innovative, more proprietary, more systems-oriented." Among Bell & Howell's successes under Peterson are a classroom projector that uses convenient filmstrip cassettes; a "Language Master" teaching device that allows children to see and hear a word, then record their own pronunciation for comparison; and an inexpensive ($12,600) color TV camera...
THIS overriding, single vision of an order of nature being hacked to pieces is likely to make an outsider squirm. As an emotional reaction, there is something to it: people who feel a little awed at the top of a mountain, or even those who prickle when they hear a Simon and Garfunkel record, are likely to know what he means. But it's easy for talk like that to degenerate into guff, and Brower seems somewhat uncomfortable when he has to play the role of visionary...
Somehow failing to hear the objections raised, Vellucci declared that his motion was passed unanimously...
Similar problems have stymied other attempts to cut waiting periods. A law in California that requires elimination of the criminal backlog has meant that, where necessary, civil judges are pulled off to hear criminal cases; that, of course, has contributed to an increase in the civil case jam. Nonetheless there is a growing recognition of the principle that justice delayed is justice denied. Congress, at the President's urging, has established a Federal Judicial Center that will, as of March 27, begin studying the problems...