Word: siftings
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Shaken by the near tragedy, but determined to put its lessons to good use on the remaining four Gemini flights, NASA officials last week continued to sift telemetry data to pinpoint the location and determine the cause of Gemini 8's short circuit. They indicated that they will probably include new attitude-thruster instrumentation on future flights. And as if to demonstrate their confidence that the U.S. space program will continue on schedule, they designated Space Veterans Virgil Grissom and Edward White and Rookie Roger Chaffee as crew members on the first three-man U.S. space mission-an earth...
...dictum: "We must understand that all sentences which begin with W are funny." Well, something unfunny has happened to American humor. Today the humorists are outexamining the examiners, some of them even making second careers as commentators who probe and pontificate on the radio and TV panels that ceaselessly sift American manners, morals and mores...
Slapstick Tragedy. Tennessee Williams can sift the soul's gold from human dross. Unhappily, this double bill of one-acters. which closed after seven performances, is almost pure dross...
...librarian Herbert E. Kleist, the box which houses the Harvard book-jacket collection is worth more than all the first editions in Houghton. Since 1948 he has taken a few minutes at the end of each day to sift through the five or six dozen jackets accumulated for him by Widener's catalog department, where he works as a specialist in Dutch, African, and Frisian books. About ten per cent of these jackets escape immediate oblivion and go to his home for more critical scrutiny. Since Harvard College Librarian Keyes D. Metcalf decided in 1948 to preserve only the works...
Writing to Attorney General Nicholas Katzenbach, Chief Judge David Bazelon of the U.S. Court of Appeals in Washington sharply questioned the effect on the "poor Negro citizen" of such draft proposals as 20-minute street detention, dragnet arrests to sift suspects, station-house questioning up to 24 hours after arrest, and lack of free counsel for indigents. Protested Bazelon: "I cannot understand why the crimes of the poor are so much more damaging to society as to warrant the current hue and cry-reflected in the proposed code -for enlarging police powers, which primarily are directed against those crimes...