Word: soaring
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Into the Geography. In Honolulu, another example of Warnecke's ability to blend modern technique into a unique geographical setting will soon go into construction. The $14 million Hawaiian state capitol will rise on 24 banyanlike columns that will soar 60 ft. above a shallow reflecting pool-symbolic of Hawaii's oceanic isolation, but not in conflict with the Italian-Renaissance-style lolani Palace near...
...drive for East-West trade. It is Garant Insur ance, a Russian-owned-and-operated firm set up under Austrian law, and its business is supplying coverage for Western businessmen who trade with the Soviet bloc. In the five years of its existence, Garant has seen its premium income soar from less than $600,000 to $4,000,000 this year; it now does business with some of the best-known manufacturers in Western Europe...
...story, Mrozek zeroes in on the absurdity of Communist hortatory jargon that often lends heroic titles to mundane party functionaries, hoping to inspire them. A group of civil servants is likened to eagles, and Mrozek takes the elevation literally. Warsaw clerks suddenly begin flying around their offices. They soar away from their desks, take to the mountains in southern Po land, and even begin carrying off lambs. Lead weights, which authorities cagily attached to their shoes, did no good, Mrozek records with relish-"they escaped in their socks...
Defense Secretary Robert McNamara's decision to abandon the Dyna-Soar space glider project offers an encouraging sign of budgetary restraint in the American space program. The Dyna-Soar project, which was expected to cost more than $1 billion, would have contributed little to U.S. military capability or scientific understanding of space. Since the Pentagon had already spent nearly $400 million on Dyna-Soar, its apparent determination to halt further extravagance on a program with limited potential is surprising and welcome...
...abandonment of the Dyna-Soar project was accompanied by much less heartening news. McNamara announced that the Air Force will begin the development of a manned space station to be orbited in 1967 or early 1968. MOL, as the project will be called, will cost approximately $900 million, and it will contribute considerably more to American space technology than Dyna-Soar. While Dyna-Soar was designed solely to investigate the means of returning a man from space, the manned-orbiting laboratory will give scientists valuable information about man's ability to survive in space over an extended period...