Word: precisionism
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To give the 171-ton Haystack its phenomenal accuracy required miracles of designed precision. The huge aluminum antenna floats, for instance, on a film of oil not much thicker than a human hair, moves on a 30-ton bearing with the ease of a ship's gyro. The oil...
Next to the athletes, the most vital ingredients in the Olympic Games are the precision timepieces needed to clock the contests, whose outcomes sometimes depend on milliseconds of difference. Last week, as the 18th Games got under way in Tokyo, the official timepieces were not European for the first time...
In the past two editorials we have scored the Doty Committee's failure to define the goals of Gen Ed with the necessary precision, to differentiate a Gen Ed course from an introductory departmental offering. Because of this vagueness, we argued, the Committee has endorsed specific requests that are contradictory...
AFRICAN CONCERT (Philips) is sung by the Troubadours of Belgium's King Bau-douin-45 Congolese drummers and singers between the ages of nine and 14, who earned the right to their title by delighting the King with a performance of their songs during his 1956 visit to the...
∙ REAPPORTIONMENT: Plunging into what Frankfurter warned was a "political thicket," the Court has tackled the anomaly of rural minorities' controlling legislative majorities in at least 40 states. To give every citizen's vote equal weight, the Court ruled last June that under the 14th Amendment, every house...