Word: picking
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...going to all the expense and bother involved instead of just shooting the missiles into the ocean? For one thing, land shots make for much more precise measurements of impact areas than do missile shoots into the ocean. For an other, sending a few Jeeps into the desert to pick up the pieces of an impacted missile is a whale of a lot cheaper than sending a flotilla of Navy cruisers all over the Atlantic or Pacific to look for a rocket launched from Vandenberg or Canaveral. And finally, White Sands has more monitoring equipment planted within...
...Scientists not directly concerned with manned space flight are almost unanimous in their conviction that the U.S. reach for the moon has been hampered by the insistence on sending men along. "Man as a mechanism is superfluous," says one such space expert. "My prediction is that unmanned systems will pick up all the scientific information about the moon, both before and after man gets there." At best, these anti-humans consider man essential for a nonscientific reason. "The pilot has little to do but represent humanity," says one of them. "The Russians know that you have to put somebody...
...little glazed yourself, pour a shot of rum or brandy in"). Some of his recipes read like calisthenic exercises: "Now add the vanilla and beat! beat! beat! If you think you are too beat to beat any more, you are a quitter!" Others encourage the housewife to pick quarrels with the quartermaster: "Ask butcher to lard beef with 1-in. strips of salt pork. If he won't take the trouble, curse him roundly, leave, and find a butcher fellow who will...
...Safe Niche. Far from being a lonely decision maker in an isolated executive suite, Thornton shows his true executive quality in the ability to pick good men and give them free rein. He has surrounded himself with an intensely loyal group of managers, who are independent thinkers not afraid to question his judgment or to lunge at opportunities without waiting for his nod. More often than not, Thornton's decision merely sets off a spirited debate that produces a compromise solution that the company finally follows...
...change is designed to aid the overworked guidance counselors, not the colleges, according to Fred L. Glimp '50, Dean of Admissions. "Since now the counselor can say the same thing to several schools, we hope he will spend more time and pick the best adjectives about a student...