Word: shapes
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...Rights Act (he and Bobby Kennedy got through an amendment that emancipated New York's Puerto Rican population by waiving literacy requirements in English for Spanish-speaking Americans who have attended U.S.-flag schools). Javits makes no obeisance to the titular authors of the laws he has helped to shape and enact. "I really pulled that one off," he says, or "I did an excellent thing setting that...
...considered the great European unifier. If anything, he was the grand Charley horse in the Western alliance. What preoccupied last week's Brussels conference, in fact, was his abrupt decision to separate French troops from NATO control and expel NATO troops from France. He had even given SHAPE its eviction notice...
...took the ministers scarcely any time at all to agree upon Brussels as the new military headquarters-despite the objection of a minority of middle-class Belgians that the influx of 2,600 SHAPE staffers would drive up rents in their capital city. More difficult was the question of whether France intended to remain as an active partner in NATO, and De Gaulle's Foreign Minister Maurice Couve de Murville proved difficult to pin down. France would be happy to allow NATO's political council to remain in Paris, he said, and would continue its membership...
Though Cernan recovered quickly and appeared to be in good physical shape when he returned to earth the following day, his experiences suggested to most NASA officials that they had been too optimistic in estimating the amount of work man can do in space. The knowledge that space flight's zero gravity actually makes a task harder, rather than easier, will probably force them to scale down astronaut spacewalk assignments on future missions. Says NASA's Dr. Charles Berry: "Men will be able to work, but I don't think we'll be working an eight...
...whole batch of new tires that have some of the most important changes since the introduction of rayon cord (1938), nylon cord (1947) and tubeless tires (1947). Compared with existing tires, they wear longer, are less likely to blow out, grip the road more strongly, and keep their shape better...