Word: shapes
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...Santos of Brazil play an exhibition against Inter of Milan, and 10 million Americans tuned into the Telstar broadcast last July of England's victory over Germany for the World Cup. What's more, soccer should be a natural for TV. Baseball fields are all the wrong shape, and the action is too slow; a good pro football quarterback can hide the ball from the TV camera as well as from his opponents. Soccer's rectangular field is perfect for the TV screen, the action is continuous (except, of course, for commercial breaks...
...evening when he was playing with his son's stand-mounted toy dog made of beads. When the bottom of the stand was pressed up, the string threaded through the beads relaxed and the dog collapsed; when it was released, the strung-together dog was pulled into shape again. Why not use the same simple principle in a tether? So Marton built a new space line of interlocking aluminum balls and collars, all strung on a central cable. When the cable is loose, the tether is completely flexible, bending at each ball joint. But when tightened by a winch...
...immensity of the change is spectacularly highlighted by the contrast with the decade of the 1950's. The complaint then was about the silent or apathetic generation, the generation of pre-organization men. The only prior decade which had given warning of the shape of things to come was the 1930's. But then students were adjuncts to the efforts of trade unionists, or of socialists and communists of the old Left, or of isolationists, America Firsters or pacifists. They were auxiliaries. They did not stand in their own right as a potential force in history...
...will be the second time that Schelling has helped to shape programs of assistance to foreign countries. In 1950 he worked under Averell Harriman, helping to develop the foreign aid program -- the annual package of military, technical and economic assistance that has become so familiar since...
Gill has been the influential figure in giving Ec 1 its present shape, but he doesn't run the course by himself. Actually Economics 1 is governed like a Harvard in miniature--responsibility is scattered and different kinds of decisions are made at different levels. In the course catalogue, the Department chairman's name always is listed first--even before Gill's. Most years the chairman gets no closer to the mechanics of the course than providing section men and giving a couple lectures, but the listing indicates that