Word: inertias
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...program. He ran two miles before breakfast every morning, sweated himself from 195 lbs. down to a flat-bellied 168. To train himself to handle a capsule tumbling out of control through space, Glenn spent hours spinning giddily in the fiendishly contrived "Mastif" (multiple axis space test inertia facility) that simultaneously rotated him in three directions, like a carnival ride gone amok. Time and again he rode the giant centrifuge that multiplied gravitational pull to simulate the strains of take-off and landing. Despite his years, Glenn showed the least heart fluctuation of any astronaut. (At lift-off last week...
...Post Office. Before he became ambassador, the Indian government retained him as an adviser. In his reports, describing the inertia and inefficiency of India's state-owned industries, Economist Galbraith coined the catch phrase "post-office socialism," proceeded to place the blame for its mediocre showing on "the socialists, who are responsible for the paralyzing belief that success is a matter of faith, not works." In the U.S., where he is himself known as a devout believer in economic planning, these words would sound strange from Galbraith; but amid India's "post-office socialists," he sounds almost like...
Historical Inertia...
...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...