Word: schemes
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...eventual plight of his less scrupulous comrade by two tactics. First, he looks upon life as a constant quest for new and higher values. Secondly, he remains ever flexible, ever ready to adjust his ideas in order that the new values may be incorporated into a coherent world scheme...
...steps. One student living in the Yard was particularly devoted to his studies and had no friends to speak of. In the spring it bothered him that so many names were called at his entry but never his own, which as it happened, was Rinehart. Eventually he devised the scheme of going from building to building shouting his own name, hoping to become well known. He was discovered in his plot, and for many years thereafter whenever a civil disturbance was desired the name "Rinehart" was cried through the Yard. No notable revolts ever developed from this practice although...
...meantime, American atomic submarines polish off the hidden evil Russians, foiling their scheme for world domination. But this is secondary to the miracles of personality transformation that take place underground. With endless fanfare and speeches, Farr gives up his mistress and his wife gives up the bottle; the Japanese engineer and the Chinese student get together--but only after a painfully long dissertation on tolerance and race prejudice; the Vassar girl becomes very attached to a meter-reader and undertakes his education (he's really very bright); Farr's mistress proves that she has a heart of gold. Finally, after...
...idea, while West Germany and Italy, which were both enthusiastic at first, have now indicated that they would rather sink their money in multimanned Polaris submarines. What the U.S. did win last week was substantial agreement from its allies-excluding France-on the general outline of a more limited scheme, the inter-allied, NATO-controlled strike force that Washington hopes to create in the near future...
Membrane Dam. While the fate of Abu Simbel hung in the balance, two cut-rate schemes were proposed to save it. British Movie Producer William MacQuitty. backed by a group of London engineers and architects, proposed building a thin ''membrane" dam around the temple. When muddy Nile water rises outside, pressure will be balanced as the space that the dam encloses will be filled to the same height with clear, filtered water treated so that it will not damage the temple's stonework. Visitors would be able to admire the temple from submerged portholes reached by elevators...