Word: litteral
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...electrical engineer and Mariner IV project director, had to make the final decisions on any hair-raising problems during the Mars encounter. He has worked on the Corporal and Jupiter missiles, was systems manager of the Mariner II Venus probe. His ideal: "To remain a virgin in outlook, not litter my mind with dogma...
...known as Malawi. The first white man he ever saw was an elegant official marching behind a column of African tribesmen, commandeered to bear the white man's burden-notably the white man's wife, who was carried through Legson's impoverished village on a litter. He assumed that the strangers were gods...
...Nichols at work again. Here Author Murray Schisgal spoofs the couch-prone and their litter-perfect recitations of the Freudian catechism. The combined talents of the director and Actors Alan Arkin, Eli Wallach and Anne Jackson are eruptively comic...
...litter of dead car carcasses is bothering more and more civic groups, such as the National Council of State Garden Clubs. Minnesota's Senator Eugene McCarthy has even urged the use of excise taxes on gasoline to subsidize the scrapping of cars. The trouble is twofold: 1) as population and incomes increase, more cars are made, and they have ever shorter lives; 2) the price of scrap metal has dropped as the steel industry has converted from open-hearth furnaces, which use up to 45% scrap metal, to oxygen furnaces, which use only 27% scrap. The price an auto...
...gone back on its campaign promises to revitalize Britain, turned instead to "panic measures" and "hysterical accounts of Britain's problems" that had spread "doubt and confusion" throughout the land. "I do not know how the right honorable gentlemen opposite can sit complacently in their places with this litter of broken pledges around them," said Douglas-Home. "If there is any rectitude left in them, they should...