Word: processes
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...current controversy were put down in the weeks just after Nov. 22, 1963. Besieged by requests for interviews, the Kennedys decided that, as a close friend says, "we had to choose a writer who would be given exclusivity-then Mrs. Kennedy would have to go through the painful process only once...
...more important than those ironic effects is the fact that the Hoffa decision, along with two others last week, approved Government use of informers and certain electronic eavesdropping-practices that go to the very heart of privacy as well as due process...
...ever be a shortage of one constant byproduct of manned-space missions-human waste. During a three-month flight, for example, a crew of three will produce approximately a quarter-ton of solid wastes. What to do with it? Seattle's Rocket Research Corp. offers a practical answer: process the waste and use it as a source of rocket fuel...
Astrophysicist Low, who is on the staff of both the University of Arizona and Rice, turned his attention to R Mon, as it is called, while searching for stars in the process of formation. "We knew that stars must be forming in the universe around us," he says. And wherever they were, those new stars should have been extremely bright. But strangely, none could be found. Then Low learned from a visiting astronomer that R Mon seemed to be emitting an abnormally large amount of infra-red radiation. He decided to check on the star with his germanium bolometer...
Against expediency is weighed the draft exam and class rank, two adjuncts to II-S with enormous political consequences. Professors do not like the use of class rank as a factor in determining deferment because they resent being drawn into the Selective Service process; psychologists dislike it because, they say, it leads to grade-grubbing and unnatural tension -- and they claim that grades often don't have any relation to performance after college. The draft exam can be attacked: congenital inaccuracy which makes it impossible to answer some questions because the right answer is a) not given or b) given...