Word: lincolnization
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Near-Perfect Parabola. Haystack is the property of the Air Force, was designed and built by M.I.T.'s Lincoln Laboratory and North American Aviation Inc. for $15 million. Of the total cost, $5,000,000 went in fees for computers, which designed and redesigned the antenna 42 times. The painstaking expense was worth it, producing an antenna that misses, by the thickness of a paper match, being a perfect parabola. Haystack can resolve objects down to 1/60th of a degree, could zero in on an area of the moon just 225 miles in diameter v. 4,500 miles...
...Tory Party to power in 1959: "You never had it so good." In general, though, Democrats, like detergent manufacturers, favor slogans that offer a new and better product ("New Deal," "New Frontier"). The Grand Old Party, like whisky distillers, prefers to emphasize aged-in-the-wood reliability, from Abraham Lincoln's "Don't swap horses in the middle of the stream" to 1924's "Keep cool with Coolidge...
...Franklin Pierce and, up to a few weeks before he was called to the presidency of the seceding states, an outstanding member of the U.S. Senate. His maltreatment after the Civil War was shameful. President Andrew Johnson signed a proclamation ridiculously charging him with complicity in the assassination of Lincoln, and he was kept in prison for two years-the first week in leg irons-before being released without a trial. His personal burdens were increased by the death, in infancy or early youth, of his four sons...
Jerome B. Wiesner, dean of science at M.I.T., and Charles H. Tones, provost and professor of Physics there, will also speak. Lincoln P. Bloomfield '41, an M.I.T. professor of Political Science and director of an arms-control project, will serve as moderator...
...impelled by a declared charter interest in politics, the Atlantic strove to break out of its parochial mold. It took a sturdy abolitionist position, endorsed Lincoln's election in both 1860 and 1864. It risked the wrath of its readers in 1869 with an article by Harriet Beecher Stowe recounting Lord Byron's incestuous relations with his sister -and spent the next 40 years recovering the 15,000 circulation that it lost as a result. But it could be stuffy too. In an 1882 article on "The Prominence of Athleticism in England," it claimed that Americans could...