Word: instrumentality
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...headed by rumpled, energetic Dr. Abe Silverstein, 51, was originally intended to send a probe to the close vicinity of Venus. The best time for the launch would have been last June. But the payload was not ready then, and a launch scheduled for December was canceled because of instrument failure. By March, Venus was far away, but NASA decided to shoot anyway. Though the Venus probe will never probe Venus intimately, it can (if all goes well) gather vital information about interplanetary space...
...skull. The teeth are long and peculiarly pointed. The smile is a little twisted, evoking for the nightmare-prone the grimace of a hanged man. The demon is in effect an immensely creative spirit which has seized for its habitation the son of a Swedish parson, and for its instrument the motion-picture camera...
...hard at work on the script of another picture. And it will take him a dozen years, he expects, to make all the other movies he has in mind. He will probably make most of them in Sweden. "I have spent 15 years forging my instrument," he says, "and now I have become a part of it. All the legs of the millepede are working at last. Why should I leave...
...Mboya had taken what he could get from Colonial Secretary Iain Macleod, and he proclaimed, at his own big welcome-home, that the agreement was just "an instrument to use" in getting more-and getting it more quickly. "As to the future of white settlers, there's no room for anyone who does not believe in undiluted democracy. Those Europeans who hesitate have only one alternative, and that's to sell out and leave...
...Those who sell hard are doing fine despite price difference. American Chemical Paint Co. brings its 35 foreign distributors to the main plant near Philadelphia every two years for a refresher course on what makes its products good, what new ones are coming along. Consolidated Electrodynamics Corp., a precision instrument maker, set up a marketing and servicing subsidiary in Germany a year and a half ago, expects to expand the staff to 85 this year. Says Manager Harold Zander: "You can't sell this type of installation by catalogue. When we get an inquiry, we have the instruments...