Word: ladders
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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APOLLO 15 Astronaut Dave Scott was hardly exaggerating. As he stepped off the ladder of his moon ship Falcon to become the seventh man to walk on the lunar crust, Scott faced the most awesome terrain ever explored: stark mountains, treacherous gorges, strange mounds and craters. "I can look straight up and see our good earth there," he said. A quarter of a million miles away, the world looked up and saw Scott, his peculiar light-footed movements carrying him across color- television scenes of stunning clarity...
Calculated Risk. As the plane approached, Obergfell moved toward the boarding ladder that had already been placed on the runway. He was holding the stewardess so close that twice she stepped on his foot. "What are you trying to pull?" he demanded. Then, for a moment, he pulled three steps away from her. FBI Agent Kenneth Lovin, who had been tracking Obergfell in his hairline sight from about 75 yds. away, fired. The first bullet slammed into the skyjacker's right shoulder and came out the left. He dropped to the ground, scrabbling to reach his pistol, and Lovin...
...CIVIL ENGINEER: "Americans came like firemen to extinguish the fire, but they haven't done the job, and now they are going home. It's unbelievable. Fine, we will put out the fire ourselves, but you have taken the water, the pump and the ladder with you. Once we knew how to put out these fires with bucket brigades, but now we are used to your technology, and you are taking it away. Many people believe things were better in 1961 than they are today. There were no motorcycles then, few radios. Now the people are making more...
...however, that Harvard is interested in making such changes. The 4-to-1 ratio here is hardly an isolated inequity: women are treated as second class at every level of the University. Women hold few major teaching appointments, including only two full professorships; they are clustered around the off-ladder positions which seldom lead to professional advancement. The Department of Health, Education and Welfare this year required Harvard to submit a plan to correct discrimination in its employment practices. And when students protested the pay differential between male and female cooks in Radcliffe kitchens, a Radcliffe official explained, "But there...
...Masterson and Lindner should be ready for first doubles next year," Barnaby said, "and they'll be near the top of the singles ladder as well...