Word: roger
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...perceptive Essay. My only comment is that you fail to mention the inhibiting fear that besets many of the singles who "devoutly wish that they weren't." The fear that we will join the apparently numerous ranks of marrieds who wish, equally devoutly, that they hadn't. ROGER DAVISSON Stanford, Calif...
...statisticians obligingly crank out an unending supply, ranging from the annual per-capita consumption of paper (540 Ibs.) to the number of dishes (nine) that the typical family breaks in the course of a year. Sports fans are longtime lovers of the well-tempered statistic. To know that Roger Maris replaced Babe Ruth as the home-run king through a fluke in total games played, is to be an aficionado instead of an amateur. For the average American, to be told that a lofting astronaut has threaded a celestial needle of time and place and reached orbit...
Critical Changes. Strapped into the conical command module, trapped by hatches impossible to open, Virgil Grissom, Edward White and Roger Chaffee scarcely had a chance. Now Apollo has only one hatch, and it can be opened with a ratchet from inside in about five seconds. The mechanism of the new, 70-lb. hatch, which Low says can be opened "with your little finger," is assisted by a cylinder of compressed nitrogen gas. Better for escape during ground tests, the quick-opening hatch also provides easier exit and re-entry during operations outside the spacecraft in flight. Moreover, it assures astronauts...
...things going for him: intense public concern with auto safety, and the tendency of more and more courts in the U.S. to hold manufacturers to tougher standards of liability when their products cause injury. Indeed, one member of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit, Judge Roger Kiley, agreed that "automobiles are intended to be used in an environment in which a traffic death occurs every eleven minutes and an injury every 19 seconds, and in which there are reckless, irresponsible drivers like Bigham. In my opinion, General Motors is chargeable with the duty of reasonably foreseeing...
...perhaps unequaled before or since. In the field, they enjoyed it when the odds were at least 20 to 1-against them. Espionage, reconnaissance, subversion, psychological warfare-they knew and practiced all these supposedly modern martial stratagems. To "psych" his adversaries before the siege of Palermo, the Norman commander, Roger de Hauteville, released a flock of captured carrier pigeons-after tying to their legs scraps of cloth soaked in Saracen blood...