Word: solids
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...solid reason for the failure of embargoes is that the world will never lack for blockade runners. There is another reason, more subtle but just as valid. Never has economic coercion from abroad been translated into political rebellion at home. On the contrary, it usually fires the patriotism of a beleaguered citizenry. In the case of Cuba, the U.S. embargo supplied Castro with the perfect excuse to explain to the Cuban people the failures of his revolution. The U.N. boycott of Franco Spain, which lasted from 1945 until 1950, led Spaniards to tighten their belts and close ranks behind...
...their missions short. But as long as they are aloft, there is little chance that there will ever be a shortage of one constant byproduct of manned-space missions-human waste. During a three-month flight, for example, a crew of three will produce approximately a quarter-ton of solid wastes. What to do with it? Seattle's Rocket Research Corp. offers a practical answer: process the waste and use it as a source of rocket fuel...
...together appropriate portions of human feces, hair and nail clippings, paper towels, sponges, detergent, and the carbon that is produced by spacecraft atmospheric-regeneration systems (because it will probably be recycled for drinking water, urine was not included). They then blended their repulsive mixture with powdered metal and a solid oxidizer, producing a black, slimy, globlike but surprisingly odorless substance that was dignified with the name MONEX W. Ground-tested in a rocket engine, it ignited quickly, burned smoothly with a bright orange flame, and produced ample thrust. The successful demonstration has just won Rocket Research a NASA feasibility contract...
...bestselling single new toy around, despite the competition of other dolls such as Stone Burke, paratrooper, James Bond, Illya Kuryakin and Captain Action, who can be dressed as Batman, Superman or Steve Canyon. Keeping the troops faithful to Joe are a brand-new G.I.-Joe Mercury capsule with solid silver space suit ($10), a G.I.-Joe Sea-Sled that operates under water ($14), and a six-man international task force of "action soldiers of the world"-French, German, Japanese, British, Australian, and a fur-capped Russian...
However, this is simply no longer the case. Over the past generation there have been enormous advances in the capacity of the social sciences to measure social change induced by public policy. These derive in great measure from the introduction of the high speed computer, but also from solid advances in our understanding of social processes themselves. "We live in a society," Otis Dudley Duncan writes, "that is understandable but not understood." I am sure Professor Duncan would wish to leave plenty of room for the eventual mysteries of life, but it is fair to state that the first order...