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...organized a seminar to study curriculum reform. It was so successful that he was paid $800 from the dean's special fund to spend a summer writing up the seminar's recommendations. Result: the 415-page "Magaziner Report," which Harvard Sociologist David Riesman has called "a herculean effort, an impressive document...
...Airport on Jamaica Bay. Chicago and New Orleans may finance theirs by charging passenger-use fees similar to those collected by many European airports. Any offshore airport, however, needs site and feasibility studies before construction can begin, and the task of draining or filling the enormous areas required is herculean. The proposed Lake Erie jetport would take an estimated ten years to complete, the New Orleans jetport nine, and even Chicago's optimistic Commissioner Downes figures on a minimum of four to five years for his Lake Michigan airport. Meanwhile air transportation is rapidly strangling on its own success...
...snow-battle of Jericho Turnpike was over. Trembling and wobbly-weary the legions trudged back, herculean shields of Samsonite luggage, the women wailing and dabbing at their curls. The bodies of Buicks, carcasses of Cadillacs, spoke amber bitter broken words. In the deep brown-lit bar the Gulf-men, Shell-men, Mobil-mechanics leaned at the frosty windows like Gods, laughing lordly as the mortals squirmed and fell...
Generating 7,500,000 Ibs. of thrust, Saturn will thunder to an altitude of 38 miles and a speed of 6,000 m.p.h. in only 2½ minutes. Then, having carried out the herculean task of lifting a 3,100-ton, 363-ft.-long vehicle through the thickest layers of the atmosphere, the giant booster rocket will drop away, and the S-2 second stage will take over. With its five engines producing 1,125,000 Ibs. of thrust, the S-2 will accelerate the shortened vehicle to a speed of 14,000 m.p.h. and hurtle it to an altitude...
This is the Herculean stable-cleaning job with which Nixon will be faced on Jan. 21. He can only hope that the Democratic majorities in the House and Senate will put country before party and back his programs instead of playing party politics as usual. Otherwise, heaven help...