Word: manuals
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...glaring absence of advance publicity. Lodge is all too obviously a neophyte it politics. In his eagerness to solicit questions, he too often wastes crucial time in minute debates with hostile voters. Yet, the Lodge campaign has made significant gains; it has borrowed heavily from the JFK organization manual for its own local groups, and Lodge himself effectively uses the Kefauver handshake method...
...Nikolaev reported to control headquarters that he was watching Vostok IV through his porthole. Plotting the radio signals, scientists outside Russia estimated that the two space craft were 74.5 miles apart, knew it would be possible for the two cosmonauts to jockey their capsules even closer together by using manual controls...
...California has set up a committee to suggest a course of study. The American Legion, which once vigorously opposed any mention of Communism around schoolchildren, passed a resolution in 1957 calling for a course on the "fallacies of Communism," has now joined the National Education Association in producing a manual on the subject. Most local school boards, sometimes nudged along by resolutions from the state legislature and suggestions from the state board of education, now weave facts about Communism into regular courses such as history, social studies and geography. Teaching about Communism in the schools has become widespread and widely...
...Mercury spacemen are tempted by three separate systems for controlling their capsules-manual, automatic and fly-by-wire. The manual system has direct mechanical connections between the control stick and the valves of a set of peroxide jets. When the astronaut moves the stick, steam blasts through selected jets to give the capsule the desired turning motion. Once it starts turning in frictionless space, it continues to turn, and it cannot be stopped without using more peroxide. Vigorous use of the manual system will quickly empty its fuel tank...
...disposal, fly-by-wire, uses the jets and fuel supply of the automatic system, but is controlled by the hand stick. Instead of opening the peroxide valves directly, fly-by-wire works them through a set of electrical actuators. It is faster than automatic and smoother than manual control, but if it is used impatiently, it quickly drains the fuel of the automatic system...