Word: plain
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Like Noah s Ark. One Saturn cluster with its upper stages and lunar landing retrorockets is expected to soft-land 2,370 lbs. of cargo-or two men and their life support-on the moon. The G.E. plan is to set a radio beacon on a suitable lunar plain selected in advance by instrumented exploring rockets. Cargo ships will home in on the beacon and land their loads within half a mile of it. When all essential articles have arrived safely, the colonists will follow two by two, like the animals entering Noah's ark. Their first job will...
...soon as the colony is reasonably snug, the ten colonists (or those who survive) will start a project that will doubtless be close to their hearts: getting back to earth. In the clutter of equipment on their dusty lunar plain, they will find enough rocket engines, heat shields, navigation instruments and other parts to assemble five return vehicles, each of which can blast two men off the moon, return them to the earth and land them on its surface in, hopefully, good condition...
...major change of direction for Chrysler, a five-man executive committee, composed of President Townsend and four directors from outside the ranks of Chrysler management, collectively took over the duties of Colbert's post as chief executive officer. Pittsburgh's personable, plain-spoken George H. Love, 63, who heads the new committee, agreed to resign as chairman of the M. A. Hanna Co. and as a member of the executive committee of National Steel Corp. (He will remain chairman of Pittsburgh's Consolidation Coal Co.) For Chrysler, this was clearly the beginning of the transition from...
Slowly the sect grew; whole families joined, and the ranks were swelled by the unmarried mothers and homeless children the Shakers took in. Book learning was not their specialty, but their unsparing attention to plain, practical craftsmanship has made Shaker furniture a landmark in the history of design. Visitors to Hancock Shaker Village are shown their graceful, high-backed chairs and the pegs around their rooms, about 6 feet from the floor, on which they hung the chairs when not in use, to make housecleaning easier. Their window frames were held in place by wooden thumbscrews, which permitted removal...
...manifesto writer, a dogmatist of the "I." In view of this, it is odd that in the most personal of all art forms, the private letter, Whitman should be rather closemouthed. He disdained "top-loftical" correspondence and "fancy words," so that there is a good deal of all-too-plain prose about the Washington weather, small sums of money, and "good grub" at his boardinghouse. The reason for his reticence seems to be that when the poet's private emotions were most powerfully involved, convention made him rein in his rhetoric. The plain fact is that a great number...