Word: platformate
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Just a Platform? There were no other visible, substantive reasons for Moscow's change of heart about another round of talks. But the Geneva delegates will have plenty of unfinished disarmament business to bring up again from previous sessions. There is the "bomber bonfire" scheme to scrap part (proposed by the U.S.) or all (as Russia urged) of their nuclear bomber fleets; the proposal to reduce the mounting stockpiles of fissionable material on both sides; and an extension of the test ban treaty to underground blasts, which has been stymied over whether three or seven on-site inspections...
...Working with a duplicate of the ship that was far out in space, Schneiderman's team manned their posts and computed answers to a nerve-racking sequence of simulated problems. They dealt with every imaginable glitch, from premature starts of the camera to unprogrammed movements of the scan platform that was designed to pick up the planet and tell the TV camera when to start functioning. Every decision the team made was fed into a duplicate Mariner in the laboratory, just as radioed commands might later be sent into space. The difference was that on these practice runs results...
...first command was sent when Mariner was still 107,000 miles away from Mars. This turned on the camera's shutter mechanism, started the scan platform searching with a wide-angle sensor for light from Mars, and turned on the tape recorder's power. Everything was going unbelievably well. Newsmen and families of the scientists gathered in JPL's Von Kármán Auditorium to await the cryptic reports from the primary tracking stations at Johannesburg in South Africa, Woomera in Australia and Goldstone in California...
...productivity faster than U.S. labor has pushed up wage costs-with the result that prices have held relatively stable. But even economic conservatives have lately accepted the idea of using deficits to stimulate the economy in slack years. Sighs Virginia Senator Harry Byrd: "Franklin Roosevelt was elected on a platform that pledged to cut governmental expenditures by 25%. Nobody would dare run on such a platform today...
Under the rules, no candidate may run whose platform is "contrary to democratic principles" or whose party is linked to foreign governments. Thus all Communists and Castroites are excluded. There is no room on the ballot for anyone whose political rights were suspended in the early days of the revolution, thereby blocking the comeback of former Presidents Jânio Quadros and Juscelino Kubitschek, whose voting privileges were lifted for ten years. Also excluded is any person who served as a Cabinet minister under deposed Joāo Goulart, the demagogic President whose purposeful drift to the left sparked last...