Word: icebergs
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...even more troubles. About 950 miles from the starting line, the car simply died. It took nearly a day to revive it. On the road, 200 Ibs. of ice had to be carried to cool the battery. Says M.I.T.'s Jim Martin: "It was like driving an iceberg." Then, at Victorville, Calif., the car's engine idled at twice its normal r.p.m.s, blew up on its block, and had to be towed 130 miles to the Pasadena finish line. It got there a full 37 hours before Caltech's Volkswagen bus limped into Cambridge. But the Caltech...
...Norr is unwilling to bury his proposal that the program be opened to students in all rank lists, sophomores as well as juniors and seniors. But that proposal is likely never to reach the Faculty floor; several administators have been suggesting that Independent Study is already a kind of iceberg and that if the Faculty knew what was going on, it would be likely to tighten not liberalize the program...
...political aura of American universities has thickened since 1954, when the Constitution was written. Predictably, the war in Vietnam intruded into the modest workings of the Council. The referendum and poll being held this week is only the visible portion of an encroaching iceberg...
...Wilson could have convinced the Titanic's passengers that hitting an iceberg, though unplanned and unfortunate, would eventually lead to valuable improvements in navigation and ship design...
...victory in Viet Nam, he was widely criticized by other churchmen, many of them Roman Catholics. William Sloane Coffin, chaplain of Yale University, has said: "It may well be that, morally speaking, the United States ship of state is today comparable to the Titanic just before it hit the iceberg...