Word: shapes
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Exactly how did le grand Charles plan to evict or take command of SHAPE headquarters outside Paris, 14 U.S. Air Force bases, 26,000 U.S. servicemen, and NATO's complex network of pipelines and storage dumps in France? He was not saying, for part of his plan, in the canny tradition of French diplomacy, was to provoke the U.S. into offering some compromise or alternative before the actual bargaining begins...
This fall, during the cross-country season, Burns had a hard time getting into shape and sprained his ankle at the end of the season. After Christmas, though, he ran a solo 880 in 1:52.7 on the boards above the Carey cage dirt track. After that a record seemed possible...
...even more momentous prospect is offered by DNA, the complicated molecule that contains the elements of heredity. Biologists think that before the century is out, they will have succeeded in changing the "information" contained in DNA. If so, it will become possible eventually to control the shape-or color-of men to come. Genetic "intervention" could improve learning capacity. Hudson Hoaglund, executive director of the Worcester Foundation for Experimental Biology, believes that thus "man will become the only animal that can direct his own evolution...
Twice bitten, thrice cautious. "We're in better shape than we've ever been" was all that Shelby would say last week on the eve of the new season's first big sports-car race-the 24-hour Daytona Continental. Gone were the six Ford GTs that competed at Le Mans last year, replaced by five $100,000 Mark II prototypes, each only 40 in. high but with 475 honest horses under its hood. The cars had undergone seven months of testing: each engine had been run for 48 hours on a dynamometer, computers had been...
...Columbia collapse is difficult to explain, but the most likely reason is that the team has thus far failed to work itself into shape. Harvard Coach Bob Pickett said yesterday the Lions are "ready to explode," especially if they've finally gotten in some kind of condition...