Word: shapes
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...truly new Europe seemed to take shape in the remarkable progress of the Common Market ever since France, West Germany, Italy and the Benelux countries signed the Treaty of Rome nearly nine years ago. As the tariff walls within the Six came tumbling down, trade doubled in a cornucopian flow of cars and caramels, typewriters and transistors, that made shops in the six countries part of one great international bazaar. The resulting boom fattened their gross national products by 38% since 1958 (v. 28% for the U.S.). Despite the erection of a common tariff against the outside world...
This time trouble had come in an unexpected form. The deadly bacillus was not a familiar strain of Vibrio cholerae (or Vibrio comma, from its shape), for which a vaccine of sorts is available. Instead, it was a strain of the El Tor group of vibrios,* one which had previously confined its disease-causing activities to the Indonesian island of Celebes. Once this kind of El Tor got under way, it seemed unstoppable. It secured beachheads in South Korea, Taiwan, Red China and Burma. Last year it reached South Viet Nam and Japan. Then it spread into Iran and Uzbekistan...
Joseph Kraft, 41, a Washington-political commentator for Harper's, is writing a new thrice-weekly column on politics in the U.S. and abroad. He pays particular attention to the intricacies of political institutions and how they shape and misshape policies...
Died. Major General Paul Ramsey Hawley, 74, sharpshooting medical administrator, an Indiana surgeon who proved his organizational skill during World War II as head of U.S. medical operations in Europe, went on to whip the chaotic Veterans Administration medical service into shape and then become head of the Blue Cross-Blue Shield health-insurance plans, all the while waging a running battle against unethical practice, including fee splitting, unnecessary surgery and exorbitant prices; of cancer; in Washington...
...velocities, but its top speed is limited to about 4,000 m.p.h. by practical considerations. The jet flame, burning conventional fuels, tends to blow out at supersonic flight speeds (above 720 m.p.h. at low altitudes). If it is to keep burning and providing thrust, the ramjet needs an inlet shape to generate its own shock wave, which will slow passage of air through the combustion chamber to a subsonic flow. Above 4,000 m.p.h., however such an inlet design could cause excessive temperatures and pressures in the combustion chamber, and thrust wouk be drastically reduced...