Word: shaped
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Buffer. Nixon will announce no Cabinet appointments until next month. Meanwhile, as his White House staff began to shape up (see following story), it became clear that he would not allow his immediate aides to exert the kind of authority that presidential assistants have enjoyed in recent Administrations. Under Johnson, Kennedy and Eisenhower, the White House staff often served as a buffer between the President and his Cabinet, and even leeched off much of the Cabinet's power. Nixon's men insist that there will be no Sherman Adams, Harry Hopkins, McGeorge Bundy or Bill Moyers standing between...
...Doughnut. Aero-Go's gadget goes to work after ground crews have rolled a plane's wheels onto small, dolly-like platforms. Underneath each platform are air bearings-flat disks made of plastic-fabric materials. When air is pumped into the disks, they assume a doughnut shape, raising the platform and its heavy load from 1 to 3 in. As the bearings become inflated, air escaping through perforations in the doughnut seeps underneath it. That thin film of escaping air suspends platform and plane above the concrete surface...
...trial comes two days after the remarkable report of the Cohen committee, which revealed the state's welfare system to be in far worse shape than even the protesting mothers had claimed. No sooner had the report been released when Governor Volpe, during a visit to Boston, tried to defend himself by laying the blame for Massachusetts' welfare mess on "a nationwide conspiracy to disrupt the public welfare system and to force us to bend to whatever they have in mind...
Harvard's prospects against Brown appear dismal. Coach Bruce Munro admits that, with three starters "doubtful," the booters "couldn't be in worse shape...
...this day it is very hard to find out just what the decision of the Faculty was." In a debate that spread out over more than a year, the Faculty eventually approved the principle of General Education while rejecting the plan the Doty Committee proposed, leaving the future shape of the program indeterminate...