Word: performance
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...carry no passengers, have comparatively low property valuations, few employees (some get by with a dozen) and small tax and debt loads. Many short lines are terminal or switching operations owned by bigger roads, or bridge lines that run between two big roads. But the short-haul roads, which perform on a small scale the same functions as the big lines, are the heart of the short-line system. Often they depend on one or a few industries for their livelihood. The dependence is sometimes so great, in fact, that some roads are "captive" lines set up by companies just...
...will have a budget of $670,000 a year to run the White House and grounds, with a domestic and maintenance staff that normally stands at 77.* Jackie Kennedy's French chef, René Verdon, will stay on-but mostly to perform for fancy official affairs. For everyday eating, Lady Bird brought along Mrs. Zephyr Wright, the Johnsons' cook for 21 years. Zephyr is an expert at spoon bread, homemade ice cream and monumental Sunday breakfasts of deer sausage, home-cured bacon, popovers, grits, scrambled eggs, homemade peach preserves and coffee...
...days to transfer a load of passenger cars off Matson's Hawaiian Motorist; the ship can now dock, unload and be back at sea in seven hours. Where 14-man gangs worked twelve shifts to load cargo containers into a Matson ship, a ten-man gang can now perform the complete loading job in just two shifts...
...will open a hatch in the heat shield and crawl into the lab, where efficient life-support equipment will let them safely shuck their cumbersome space suits. They will have plenty of room to move around, and by making due allowance for zero gravity, they will be able to perform elaborate and delicate tasks. After several weeks in the lab, they will return to the capsule and close the hatch in the heat shield. After detaching the MOL and leaving it in orbit, they will ignite their retrorockets and make their flaming descent...
...such promise, though, McNamara insists that the first step must be to find out whether humans can stay in top form in space and perform difficult duties better than nonhuman instruments. This is by no means sure. Said Albert C. Hall, DOD's space expert, "The astronaut will have to do more than throw a switch, which is about all they have done in Mercury." The partisans of such manned space stations must also prove that an alert enemy cannot destroy them with a small fraction of the effort that it took to put them in orbit. Says skeptical...