Word: precisionism
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The Megabuck Projects. Parallel to the push for family shelters is the one to defend U.S. private industry. Industrial civil defense is enormously expensive. "It costs megabucks," says Frank Jones of Chicago's Bell & Howell Co., which has buried its vital records as a starter in its own civil...
Outside New York's Coliseum last week stood a Redstone rocket, white and spare, and tipped with a Mercury capsule exactly like the one that carried Commander Alan Shepard on his suborbital flight. Inside the building glittered the American Rocket Society's "Space Flight Report to the Nation...
The obstacle to curt dismissal of such hair- splitting is that these matters of definition are more important than that: Sheldon Messinger and Burton Clark argue presuasively that Riesman has used social character to talk about personality when he should have centered his attention on schools, work, and nations in...
I APPRECIATE DEEPLY YOUR VERY FRIENDLY ARTICLE ON EUROPE [Oct. 6]. I AM IMPRESSED BY THE THOROUGHNESS AND PRECISION OF WORK YOUR EDITORS HAVE DONE. THE ARTICLE GAVE ME SOME VALUABLE INFORMATION I DID NOT HAVE BEFORE. MY THANKS AND APPRECIATION TO THE TIME STAFF, NOT LEAST THE ARTIST. JEAN...
Author White has a fine, sweaty flair for physical detail: "The foreman stood there twiddling the hairs of his left armpit and breathing through his mouth." He has a grand ear for gossip: "I never take nothing substantial of an evening," clucks one old hen to another. "My stomach would...