Word: precisionism
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New factories have been built, such as the Hughes Aircraft plant that turns out the fierce, intelligent Falcons, the Air Force's air-to-air missiles. The Falcon's tiny gyros, bearings and electronic components must be manufactured with a super-watchmaker's precision. The job is...
What the Air Force and the airlines want is a new, almost fully automatic traffic system to control every plane in the sky with electronic precision. Operating with radar, to find the planes and compute their positions at all times, the system would be able to handle all traffic at...
The Rise of Enrollments. The problem arises, of course, because of the expected increase in the numbers of college age. All kinds of estimates are available of what future enrollment is likely to be. We do not know precisely. We know we have reached the minimum figure of numbers of...
From Jacksonville to Gainesville to Ocala to De Land to Sanford to Orlando to Miami, Adlai Stevenson was politicking in Florida and shaking hands with all the pumplike precision, but not the gusto, of an Estes Kefauver. In Gainesville he wandered about the University of Florida campus, answered questions from...
The emphasis on fundamentals had not taken hold by the Dartmouth game, however. The Indians won, 20 to 0. The next week Margarita drilled the team even more than usual on fundamentals. The emphasis began to show results. Fullback Stan Merkel, counted upon heavily at the start of the year...