Word: soaring
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...automatic control systems, turning out 13,000 products so diverse that they encompass a 600 microswitch and a $3,000,000 electronic data processing system. "We pride ourselves," says a Honeywell executive, "on being able to control damned near anything." Every manned space flight, from Mercury to Dyna-Soar, depends on intricate controls made by Honeywell...
...foolhardily set out to bring big-time soccer to the soccer-resistant U.S., founded the International Soccer League. It has lost money, predictably, but this year's overall attendance, 288,743, was roughly double the 1960 total, and for a change Cox envisions black ink. Attendance would soar, he is convinced, if the league could get a U.S. team capable of competing against the top European and Latin American squads that play in the I.S.L...
...supports, prestressed and poured in position-first the cross-shaped trunks, then the great branches. With this sturdy but graceful forest as a foundation, the thin slab seems so light that it appears barely to touch the top branches at all. Its cantilevered edges defy gravity, its corners almost soar into space...
Titan HI has no definite military mission. The Air Force hopes to use it to launch Dyna-Soar, its controversial steerable satellite that (it is hoped) will be able to maneuver freely in orbit and land where it will. Another Air Force hope for Titan III is MODS: an inhabitable satellite ten feet in diameter with a crew of two or three...
...college). "Already our unemployment is concentrated among the 18-and i g-year-olds, and a tidal wave of them will hit us in 1964 and 1965," says Martin Gainsbrugh, chief economist of the National Industrial Conference Board. The number of new workers entering the labor force will soar from 1,200,000 in the last year to 2,500,000 next year...