Word: payoffs
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Thin Skin. Last week not only Puffin's puffers, but two other teams of British aeronauts as well, were attempting to accomplish what Leonardo da Vinci had failed to do nearly 450 years ago: build and fly an aircraft powered only by man. The payoff is tempting: a $14,000 prize donated by London Industrialist Henry Kremer, 55. The rules of the contest are deceptively simple. All a citizen of the Commonwealth has to do is fly a heavier-than-air craft over a figure-eight course, around two turning points not less than half a mile apart. According...
...Sixth Payoff. Soon after Telstar was launched, NASA's global tracking network reported it on a perfect orbit. At Andover, anxious scientists heard with relief that its telemetering system was working precisely as planned, reporting no trouble at all. But during its first five 158-min. orbits, Telstar did not come within practical line-of-sight distance of the big ear in Maine. The sixth orbit was the payoff. It was 7 p.m. in Maine when the satellite raced toward the U.S. Calculations showed that it would pass close enough to Maine to hear a command...
...produced at Bradwell and Berkeley still costs substantially more than electricity generated with coal. But some time between 1970 and 1973, when the construction costs of the nuclear plants are finally paid off, the longer life of atomic fuel should even things up. This ten-year wait for a payoff does not worry the British...
...most convinced of these supporters is Franklin Ford, professor of History. While he concedes that the value of exams may vary from field to field, "in history, the payoff is what you can do with the material." Examinations are good, not so much because they require students to remember everything--"the police function of examinations has been over-emphasized"--as because a good examination gives students "a real intellectual experience." Answering well-formulted examination questions, the student "sits down at the end of a course and follows a theme though a 150-year period. He gets to see the forest...
...Handsome Payoff. To FCC Chairman Newton Minow, WFMT has long been a sort of vast tasteland. Chicagoan Minow admires the station because it is making what he calls "a real cultural attack." Its programming is about 80% classical music, and the other 20% includes shows of uniformly high quality, ranging from plays and readings by minor and major poets to heady discussions and adequate but not repetitive news. Most celebrated WFMT character is Studs Terkel, who runs a daily 10-11 a.m. program of literate talk with both itinerant and local celebrities, such as Tennessee Williams and Chicago Novelist Nelson...