Word: scales
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...tempestuous have the students proved in their earliest reconfinement to the classroom that the present interval is being designated a transitional period of "struggle," preliminary to the full-scale resumption of school in the fall. For the time being, by Mao's edict, all students are expected to engage in factory work, farming and military affairs, and also consume heavy doses of the works of Mao; in those primary and secondary schools that are open, instruction is limited to one to two hours of morning classes, during which pupils read, chant, sing and dance the messages of Chairman...
...officials, they favor instead the "redundancy" approach of providing auxiliary systems to take over for any that fail. Moreover, as presently conceived, Johnson's lifeboat will be usable only on near-earth orbits. Even so, work on it has progressed further than on any other rescue system. Small-scale models have been repeatedly drop-tested in laboratory experiments. Computerized simulations of re-entry have uncovered potential flaws that are being corrected; Johnson's nylon heat shield has stood up well under rigorous tests at NASA's Langley Research Center. Next step: drop tests of the full-size...
...looked like the last. All of the company's orchestral scores and most of its costumes were burned, along with the Cardillac sets. But before the ashes had cooled, Crosby was calmly laying plans to rebuild his theater and making arrangements to continue the season on a reduced scale. Two days later, the company was back in business with a. performance of Rossini's Barber of Seville in the gymnasium of a Santa Fe high school...
...notable landmark in the gradual transformation of the tradition-bound house building industry. Last year, amid housing's worst slump since World War II, one out of five home builders went out of business. As small firms vanish, giant combines rich enough to build on a huge scale are taking over. Big corporations such as ITT are increasingly joining forces with builders-often by merger, sometimes through joint ventures. Last year, for example, Westinghouse Electric acquired Florida's Coral Ridge Properties and is now busy building a city for 60,000 residents near Fort Lauderdale. Pennsylvania Railroad...
...motorcycles again, and began looking around for a car design as well. Misjudging the market, BMW decided on an eight-cylinder luxury job which cost so much to build that it lost money from the start. Simultaneously, the company started producing a loser on the other end of the scale: the onecylinder 13-h.p. Isetta. By 1959, the firm was so deep in the red that merger or absorption seemed inevitable. Rumors spread that several big firms, including Daimler-Benz and General Electric, were making bids. This so shocked proud Bavaria that a public campaign was begun to save...