Word: slow
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...vote on the back-to-work bill, which the House was due to take up this week in what promised to be a stormy debate. If the bill becomes law, will the machinists abide by it? Yes, replied Siemiller, but "they'll just be a little slow at getting back...
...nation's first commercial supersonic transport. The wing, which is crucial to the multipurpose role planned for the TFX, enables the plane, in effect, to redesign itself in flight. The plane sweeps back its wings in a dartlike configuration for supersonic flight, extends them to full span to slow itself for landing on aircraft carriers...
...Force is prepared to live with its version, designated the F-111A and due to become operational next year. The Navy version, the F-111B, is another matter. The Navy fears that the 35-ton F-111B consumes too much fuel and has insufficient range for "loitering" .(patrolling at slow speed to guard ships), suspects that it will prove too heavy and cumbersome for carrier use. Pentagon planners expect that new lift devices will partially offset the weight problem, also hope to improve the F-111B's engine and eliminate kinks in its special missile system. But the Navy...
...took to move paper back and forth between front office and back. He thereupon introduced a conveyor-belt system that cut paper shuffling (and costs). In 1956, the firm moved boldly into computers. Strange as it may seem, Wall Street, which certainly has pressing need of computers, was slow to get into the electronic act; the New York Stock Exchange itself is still in the midst of conversion from a hand-run system to a computerized operation...
Director Daniel Petrie sponges up London's local color, but The Idol tantalizes chiefly by concentrating on Parks, whose passing resemblance to Laurence Harvey offers no insurmountable obstacle. Intense, slow-burning and confidently virile, he has a star actor's natural instinct for arousing curiosity about what he will do next. Parks pulls attention to himself like a vagrant, possibly savage tomcat whose animal responses need not be understood to be interesting. And he makes most of moviedom's clean-jawed young swains look about as dangerous as campfire boys...