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...states that he alone is not responsible for the breakthroughs. He says always, "Me and a great many other people ..." In fact, he established and ran the conventional Explosives Research Laboratory in Bruceton, Pa. And in 1944, he became chief of the explosives division of the Manhattan Project. "In retrospect," Kistiakowsky said. "I saw myself as a technician who tried to carry out the policies of 'statesman', never challenging them. That is the spirit in which I worked during...
...past year was filled with anxiety in its passage. Yet in retrospect it appears to have been a constructive period when attitudes began to alter, and restorative forces have reasserted themselves...
...governing public transportation be made more rational. The fact that the boycott lasted 382 days was no less of a surprise to the middle class leadership of the Montgomery Improvement Association (of which King was president) than was "the stupidity and short-sightedness of the Montgomery city officials." In retrospect, one of the most surprising recomplished only the desegregation sults of the boycott was that it ac-of the buses; while leaving other public accommodations such as the city's school system and recreational facilities jimcrow. Williams's explanation of this rightfully centers upon the nature of the black South...
Harvard does not exactly attach world-shattering significance to beating Yale-or anyone, for that matter. I don't think many people in Cambridge walk around believing that Frank Champi salvaged the 1968-69 academic year with his 42 seconds worth of athletic bravado. But then, in retrospect, the 1968-69 academic year was probably a lost cause to begin with...
Though he could not talk, he was self-reliant beyond his twelve years, and armed with a feeling of superiority that comes naturally to survivors. In retrospect, Kosinski compared himself to a locked fortress, "making no noise, so no one knew how many troops there really were inside...