Word: helpful
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...laid out on the ground with all the shroud lines straight; then it is harnessed to the rider, who stands, sits or stretches out on a flat piece of heavy cardboard. Helpers then lift the chute so that it can fill with wind-all the while chanting "Come and help, Gus!" (the name for springtime gusts in the Rockies)-and away the rider goes over the grass on his cardboard chariot at speeds as high as 30 m.p.h...
...neglect newspapers. If at all possible, think of a different thing to say each day so that there will always be a story about you in every paper anyone picks up. This will help to convince people that what you are saying is important. A sample approach: pick out a prosecution witness and attack him. For instance, the venerable medical examiner who gave damaging testimony as to how the murder victim died. Say that the way he runs his office is "a scandal." There may be phrases of his that you can turn to your own use, like: "I have...
Because "computing is becoming al most as much a part of our working life as arithmetic or driving a car," the Pres ident's Science Advisory Committee has urged colleges to spend $400 million a year on computer instruction by 1971. It wants the Federal Government to help by sharing the cost of acquiring and operating the big machines...
...computer and employ 14 full-time professors next fall-partly by courtesy of a $1,000,000 gift from Richard K. Mellon. With 43 remote stations, Dartmouth's $2,500,000 facility pegs the cost for each second of student use at 70. Though appreciative of vast federal help in building computer facilities for Government research, college administrators voice a universal complaint-Government auditors do not allow charges for student use of the machines...
Rather than waiting for the climbers, Kendall, like many another U.S. company is actively searching for help. With its employees already working 50-hour weeks to keep production up, Kendall is hiring Italian and Portuguese immigrants and Puerto Ricans, even if they speak no English. Similarly in Miami, stores have begun to hire Cuban refugees who know only Spanish; clerks and customers carry out transactions in sign language...