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...Presidents have never really faced the problem of expansion," he completed, "but I suspect that much reluctance and inertia would have to be overcome before adding teams to the League." He said that the President of Colgate is interested in scheduling more Ivy League games but has expressed no desire to join the League...
...desert survival and practiced squirming out of a Mercury capsule while it was tossing on a choppy sea. He learned about weightlessness by flying in high-speed airplanes as they curved over the top half of an outside loop. He rode in a MASTIF (Multiple Axis Space Test Inertia Facility), a training device that tumbles on three axes, and learned how to bring it to an even keel. In quieter moments he studied astronautics, aviation biology, astronomy, meteorology and astrophysics. Always, he kept in top physical shape...
...grasp. He was thinking of architecture not only in terms of this or that building, but of everything within the building- 'every detail of household furnishing, the street as well as the house and the wider world beyond." With an artist's bland disregard for the inertia of others, Le Corbusier drew up a master plan for a "Contemporary City of Three Million Inhabitants...
Federal farm programs, said the President, are "drifting into a chaotic state, piling up surpluses, penalizing efficiency, rewarding inertia." Very true. But then the President went on to prescribe a big dose of the same kinds of programs: direct and indirect subsidies, plus entangling controls to cope with the surpluses that the subsidies help to create. If carried out, the Kennedy proposals would even extend subsidies and controls to farm products-most fruits, vegetables and livestock-that are now normally outside the farm policy mess...
Leaving the mayor's home, Steve Kennedy called a midnight press conference, declared bitterly that he was quitting because of Wagner's "inertia, indecision and drift." He cleaned out his desk, patted his .38-cal. Police Special, and walked out of headquarters with his eyes glistening. The mayor was ready with a successor, an oldtime cop and Kennedy protégé with a fine record, Chief Inspector Michael J. Murphy, 47. Few of Kennedy's friends could fault Bob Wagner. Taking one consideration with another, he had been a long time in applying the kind...