Word: soaring
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...correct answer appears. As the Skinnerian student clicks along, he concentrates fully on each item, advancing only when he is ready to answer. If he gets spring fever he may stop work, but at least he misses nothing, as he would in class. If he wants to soar ahead...
Building on its own past, science climbs in an ever steepening curve. For every Newton or Galileo or Einstein, with their intuitive explosions of individual genius, there follow hundreds of other scientists, probing and proving and progressing. Such is the soar of the scientific exponential curve (see diagram) that, it has been said, almost 90% of all the scientists that the world has ever produced are alive today...
Among those at the most practical pole of space science is Astronauticist Charles Draper. In his capacity as head of M.I.T.'s Instrumentation Lab, Draper in 1960 was working on guidance systems for space vehicles of the Dyna-Soar type ?vehicles with supporting wings to get them out of the earth's atmosphere. He sees little future for manned space exploration in Project Mercury, which uses a ballistic missile, which is shot like a bullet, has no wings and not much control after it is fired. "That's sort of like going over Niagara Falls in a barrel," says...
...seasonal fixture ever since. Last week another Christmas opera, Golden Child, was displayed on NBC's Hallmark Hall of Fame. Composed by Philip Bezanson with a libretto by Paul Engle, the new work sounded a lot like Menotti gone western-and gone weak. The music kept attempting to soar melodically, but kept being dashed to the ground again by its own heaviness. Still, the score had its stirring, lyrical moments, and Golden Child deserved credit at least for trying to be a serious addition to American opera, to TV and to the season...
Those lucky investors who years ago put $20,000 into International Business Machines, or a similar growth stock, and have seen it soar to $500,000 today, do have some problems. How can they get their eggs out of the one big basket, spreading the risk by putting their money into a number of stocks, without paying the 25% federal capital-gains tax? To help investors out of this gilt-edged dilemma, two young Denver bankers, Ranald H. Macdonald, 36, and William M. B. Berger, 35, launched a new mutual fund that permits diversification without selling and paying taxes...