Word: instrumentality
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...collection of his 1953-58 writings published last year under the title En Pie (Afoot) shows that until recently he was above all antiCommunist. He sneered at the "trained seals of the Kremlin," warned that "it is necessary to prevent anti-iniperialism from being converted into a treacherous instrument of the imperialist policy of the U.S.S.R.," said flatly: "Communism is the most serious threat that today hangs over humanity...
...Delrin, a formaldehyde plastic with many of the properties of nylon that can be made at considerably less cost. Put on the market about a year ago, Delrin has already started to take a big bite out of the metal industry. In 1961 Chrysler Valiant will sport a Delrin instrument panel, the biggest single automotive use of unreinforced plastic. Several oil companies have bought Delrin pipes for oilfield use. It has already been incorporated in some 270 products, from aerosol bottles to zippers. Manufacturers' requests for its use are pouring in at the rate...
...capsule into orbit around the moon, and the size of the capsule can be increased by 100 Ibs. for each additional 20,000 Ibs. of thrust that Soviet scientists can coax from the boost er. Says a U.S. engineer: "The Russians probably could soft-land an instrument package on the moon within six months, and they should be able to make a manned landing within 18 months." The U.S. is hard at work on development of big new chemical boosters such as Saturn (1,500,000 Ibs. of thrust), plans to flight-test cheaper, deep-space electrical propulsion systems...
...teaches sociology at Manhattan's Hunter College, produced a soberly symbolic essay on the fatuity of war. Wider in scope, The Silver Bacchanal reveals man as an Absurd Animal, torn between hope and despair, ideal love and an insatiable lust. Fü;p-Miller's instrument of dissection is irony, e.g., the army's bureaucratic campaign against disease-carrying houseflies, in which the city is divided into sectors manned by bumbling brigades of swatters. But the laughter evoked is hollow; the comedy is as cheerless as the triptychs of Hieronymus Bosch...
...news was bad: on only its second pass, Discoverer XIV started to pitch drunkenly; its stabilizing jets, struggling desperately to halt the satellite's violent gyrations, began draining precious fuel. Battle figured Discoverer's fuel supply would be so low by the 17th circuit-when its instrument package was to be cut loose-that the capsule could not be aimed at the programed target area. He sighed: "We're dead." Battle's pessimism was premature. When its erratic wobbling was corrected, Discoverer XIV's tanks still held 1,000 lbs. of gas pressure -more than...