Word: outward
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...demand for activists. There are other sources in U.S. institutions-families, schools, colleges, corporations. All ought to be doing more to spur individual initiative. A case could be made for pitting every teen-ager against physical hardships that build self-confidence, as in t country's several Outward Bound camps, which put boys through summer survival courses. If draft laws are ever changed, dropping out for useful social action would do wonders for jaded collegians. If more U.S. corporations imitated the smartest ones, thousands of executives woi get periodic leaves for intellectual recharging, and spend their lives in creativity...
...cost of $75 million, Apollo itself was redesigned, with thousands of changes in materials, wiring and equipment. In place of the old inward-swinging, three-part hatch that took 90 sec. to open, Apollo 7 has a single outward-swinging hatch that can be opened in 10 sec. To snuff out any fire that might start, there is now an emergency venting system that can reduce cabin pressure in seconds. And while the spacecraft is on the pad, a mixture of 60% oxygen and 40% nitrogen has been substituted for the 100% oxygen of flight, further reducing the danger...
...Limits. Prescott's most novel enterprise is the outdoor sports program Convinced that students need more than the artificial competition of games Prescott has abandoned traditional team sports. Instead, it has adopted the techniques developed by Outward Bound, an international program of more than 20 wilderness camps that stresses adventure, challenge and sell sufficiency...
...realizes that the arms race has approached its outward limits. "A nation can reach the point at which it does not buy more security for itself simply by buying more military hardware," he cautions, "and we are at that point." The U.S. and the Soviets, he suggests, have reached a Mexican standoff: "It is futile for each of us to spend $4 billion, $40 billion or $400 billion-and at the end of all the spending ... to be relatively at the same point of balance on the security scale that we are now . . . What the world requires...
...Parthenon's classical Doric columns. Although the museum's 6-ft.-thick roof looks perfectly flat, it too is designed to deceive the eye. The center has been slightly raised so that a disproportionately large share of the weight may be directed outward onto the columns...