Word: nails
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...college, rather than the fund-raising pros, must nail down the donors. Operating on the rough rule that 90% of most drive proceeds will come from 10% of the donors, schools work on their wealthiest friends first. Early announcements of big gifts often entice other affluent donors to follow suit, although the approach has its hazards. One Midwestern multimillionaire kept complaining when a college stalled its announcement of his $100,000 gift; school officers could not tell him that they had expected $10 million and feared his example would induce every potential $100,000 donor to scale down...
...President and Congress maintain this mood, the ceiling may be lowered for a U.S. industry that has built 78% of the 9,000 airline planes now flying worldwide and is confidently expected to nail down the supersonic market as well after 1974. SST work elsewhere is rolling along. The Russians are hard and quietly at work on the TU-144. In Toulouse last week, the Concorde prototype's wings were mated to its body and the $3 billion project is keeping right on schedule toward scheduled flight in 1971. The Concorde is smaller, slower and less rangy than...
...PROFESSIONALS. The liveliest western dust-up since Shane stars Burt Lancaster, Lee Marvin, Woody Strode and Robert Ryan as four nail-hard professional gunmen hired at $10,000 apiece to find an errant wife (Claudia Cardinale) and return her to her husband...
...test their theory, Rocket Research scientists mixed together appropriate portions of human feces, hair and nail clippings, paper towels, sponges, detergent, and the carbon that is produced by spacecraft atmospheric-regeneration systems (because it will probably be recycled for drinking water, urine was not included). They then blended their repulsive mixture with powdered metal and a solid oxidizer, producing a black, slimy, globlike but surprisingly odorless substance that was dignified with the name MONEX W. Ground-tested in a rocket engine, it ignited quickly, burned smoothly with a bright orange flame, and produced ample thrust. The successful demonstration has just...
...Marvin, Woody Strode and Robert Ryan as four nail-hard professional gunmen hired at $10,000 apiece to find an errant wife (Claudia Cardinale) and return her to her husband...