Word: slide
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...veered off course. Ostich popped the eight-foot parachute brake; the Flying Caduceus skidded wildly for nearly two miles, snapped off a wheel, hopped briefly into the air and shuddered to a halt. Unhurt, Ostich surveyed the wreckage and growled: "Was I safe at first? That was a long slide...
They are young (mostly in their 30s), intellectual, aggressive, forever questioning. They bring to the Defense establishment, along with their slide rules, a fresh, imaginative approach to the increasingly intricate problem of turning dollars into deterrence: just how much should go for M-14 rifles, how much for ICBMs. Before McNamara, the Joint Chiefs of Staff were accustomed-as one New Frontiersman puts it-"to render advice as though it were engraved on stone." Today, the Whiz Kids assemble the facts and the alternatives-including unorthodox possibilities-so that the Secretary of Defense can grasp the whole problem and make...
INFORMATION CENTER SLIDE CONTEST: There will be Slide Contest sponsored by the Information Center this Summer. The slides can be of any Summer School activity; but no classroom pictures will be accepted...
...Slides must be entered at the Information Center, 20-22 Dunster Street, before Friday. Every entrant is allowed only one slide. Slides will become the property of the Information Center and will not be returned...
...preside over the launching of the world's biggest tanker, a 131,000-tonner, which he plans to use as a "floating pipeline" to import oil from the Middle East. His blushing daughter Junko will swing the champagne bottle, but since the huge ship is too bulky to slide down the ways, water will be let into its massive drydock until it is afloat. The new tanker's name is Nissho Maru, which means "Rising Sun," and at the launching there will be banzais all around...