Word: shapes
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...President's war against poverty took shape and substance last week. In St. Petersburg, Fla., the first regular class of Volunteers in Service to America (VISTA), the domestic version of the Peace Corps, graduated. And in Maryland's Catoctin Mountains, 45 miles west of Baltimore, the first Job Corps training camp was officially opened...
...tons. From one, corpsmen took four bundles that looked like oversized parachutes and laid them out neatly, edge to edge, on clear ground, then hooked them to an air hose. Solemnly, the big bags shook out their wrinkles as they were inflated and rose into the familiar, half-round shape of a Quonset hut. The four sections were joined together and the joints zippered airtight. Out of the other packages came 20 beds and all the gear needed for as many patients. Only eight men were needed...
...year will come March 26 at Brandeis, during the New England Women's Intercollegiate Fencing Tournament, where the 'Cliffe will defend its two-year-old team championship. The Cliffles should have no trouble holding on to the victor's cup, however, since they are in exceptionally good shape after their practice with the Harvard varsity fencers last week...
Brown, with a 3-6-1 overall record, has that all five of its matches with Ivy League teams this season. Riddled with in-series and illness, the Bruins forfeited some of their matches against Princeton on Feb. 13 and lost, 23-11. Even now, the team's physical shape is uncertain. Brown as lost to two teams Harvard has beaten, princeton and Penn, and drawn with M.I.T., another Crimson victim...
Electronic Collision. So frail that it can hold its shape only at weightless, airless altitudes, that wide wing is the working element of a satellite, built by Fairchild Hiller Corp., for detecting micrometeoroids. Pegasus' 208 rectangular panels are covered on both sides with thin sheets of copper and aluminum separated by plastic. The metal sheets are electrically charged, but normally no current flows between them. When a micrometeoroid penetrates the aluminum, it will punch a hole in the plastic and fill the hole with metal vapor that is a good conductor of electricity. Although the gas will dissipate quickly...