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Once out in front, Mackenzie may let the field catch up, then shoot away with the cry: "This is racing, don't you know?" Or, bored with his lead, he may actually lag back to join the pursuing fleet for a stretch: "You get sick and tired just bashing along all alone...
...people were present. The students had no caps and gowns; nor were their diplomas engraved in traditional fashion-just plain typed certificates. But if the surroundings were drab last week, the occasion was not. It was the first graduation of the Middle East Technical University, organized to overcome the lag in technical education in the underdeveloped Middle East, and to do it in a hurry. Says the school's American president, Edwin S. Burdell: "Education in Turkey is about 100 years behind the U.S. in terms of methods and facilities, but we hope to catch up in five years...
Sagging Weight. Inertial guidance works on the childishly simple fact that a weight suspended on springs lags behind when the vehicle on which it is mounted starts to move. If this lag is measured carefully, the speed of the vehicle can be determined, as well as the distance covered. But to do the measuring properly, the motions of the suspended weight must be compared with some fixed system of reference. If a missile curves, for example, the guidance system must know...
Emphasizing the need for a bold program are more chilling statistics. It takes at least three years to plan, build and staff a medical school, and there is a lag of five more years before its first graduates can hang out their shingles. A new school may cost anywhere from $10 million (if laboratory, classroom and dormitory facilities can be hooked on to an existing hos pital) to $50 million (if a big general hospital, essential for teaching bedside medicine to the upper classes, has to be built from the ground...
...Hurley joined C.W. in 1949 when 16 of its 19 plants were idle, revitalized the ailing company. He slashed costs, ramrodded through a diversification program into electronics, plastics, nuclear reactors, rockets and ultrasonics. But in pushing diversification, he let his research and work on products coming off the line lag. Although the Wright turbo compound engine was standard on both the DC-7 and Super Constellation, it proved so unsatisfactory that airlines were not interested in Wright engines for the new jet airliners. Defense business also faded...