Word: shapes
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...there were, as Saigon analysts noted, no George Washingtons or Magsaysays among them. They were not running for a legislature. They represented no political parties. They stood on no platform other than their own appeal-and their desire, in the face of assassination threats by the Viet Cong, to shape a constitution that will prepare the way for civilian rule in Viet...
...similar difficulties in meeting its payroll. But S.N.C.C., unlike CORE, has always been able to count on the fanatical zeal of its workers-most of whom receive only $20 a week-and does not seem in danger of imminent collapse. Yet, if CORE and S.N.C.C. are in bad shape, their power for promoting discord among Negroes is still very much alive. The problem of the split civil rights movement, said Martin Luther King last week, is as old as the pyramids. "Whenever Pharaoh wanted to keep the slaves in slavery," lamented King, "he kept them fighting among themselves...
...year-old resident at Ohio State University Hospital, worked on the theory that "you don't have to float the whole body-just the butt." Spence observed that the body protects itself from friction by fatty tissues that move under pressure but return to their original shape when pressure is removed. As a substitute for natural cushions, he first tried placing wads of soft pie dough under his patients, then lumps of a children's jelly-like plaything called Silly Putty. Next, he designed 16-sq.-in. pads of silicone gel, which have the resiliency of flesh itself...
...basis of preliminary data reflecting eccentricities in the spacecraft's orbit, scientists came to an unexpected conclusion: the moon, like the earth, may be slightly pear-shaped. Instead of being a perfect sphere, the moon seems to be depressed about a quarter of a mile out of shape at its south pole and bulges out about the same distance at its north pole. Because the moon has a diameter of about 2,200 miles, the distortion would hardly be noticeable when viewed from the earth. Said a NASA official: "Let's not expect to go out and look...
...arrested by reading William Burroughs: "Bet money on that." The now-notorious Mailer sense of smell, which got such a bloodhound workout in his last novel, An American Dream, now concentrates on the bowel: man's nature, he says, can be divined in "the color, the shape, the odor and the movement" of his stool...