Word: peakes
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Collins is a master of the dry style of humor that is characteristic of many of the astronauts. How did his wife feel about his latest and most hazardous space assignment? Replied Collins: "She gets a little bit happier every time. However, I think she's reached a peak in happiness now, and I'm going to just leave her right where she is." He is also the most philosophical member of the crew, especially about his own motives for venturing into space. "I really think the key is that man has always gone where he could, and he must...
That the butterfly now exists is, above all, a tribute to superb management techniques. This was the biggest and most imaginative Government-industry-university team ever put together for a single project. At its peak in 1966, Apollo involved 400,000 men and women at 120 universities and laboratories and 20,000 industrial firms; its budget for that year alone was $5.9 billion...
...conflict, at first only an urban affair, is spreading to the countryside. Chinese-owned pickup trucks have ceased collecting the fishing catch from the Strait of Malacca. The eagerly awaited season for durian, a large and delectable strong-scented fruit grown only in Asia, is now at its peak. In any other year, Malay farmers would make small fortunes on this rare fruit. Last week durians were rotting by the roadside because Chinese trucks were not sent for them-as they are not being sent anywhere in Malaysia's rice bowl. Economies will not long endure that kind...
...sense, though, Gropius lived to be disappointed. Rationality in architecture, which reached its peak with the highly disciplined, exquisitely refined towers of Mies van der Rohe in the 1950s, has been cheapened by the slick, boxy, formula buildings that proliferate in every city like frozen dinners in a supermarket. The architect's imagination is now captured by bold, brutal structures of raw concrete; or intricate multilevel structures, designed with the help of a computer; or "pop" buildings that seem to revel in the chaotic interplay of roof lines, angles, windows, colors. Yet all the architects who rebel against Gropius...
...strength. While most radical Negro organizations count their membership in the hundreds, the N.A.A.C.P. has 450,673 dues payers-an increase of 5% in a year. Its annual income is $3.3 million. Below the surface, however, there are signs of weakness. Membership has slipped by 16% from its 1963 peak, and many remaining members are inactive. While the convention saw no serious attempts by young militants to take over, the reason was that many young people had already quit. To stop such attrition, the N.A.A.C.P. needs more help from white America. The organization must show that its reasoned approach...