Word: solids
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Connor then won three terms in the state senate, where his record tended toward conservatism. He has changed his views considerably since then, now makes a big point of his liberalism. In ten years as Queens County district attorney, he established a solid but unexceptional reputation, staking out a claim to progressive principles. He was the only New York district attorney to oppose capital punishment. Last year he wanted to run for mayor but had to settle for the city council presidency nomination. The machine's candidate for mayor, Abraham Beame, lost to Republican John Lindsay...
...dervish-like as the environment he has set out to control, ESSA's first administrator, Dr. Robert M. White, 43 (younger brother of Author Theodore), combines the talents of a no-nonsense executive with solid scientific vision. White comes to the job with a background in weather research, first with the Air Force, then as president of Travelers Research Center, Inc., and later as chief of the U.S. Weather Bureau. Most observers consider him superbly equipped to chart the new agency's $145 million budget, 14% of which is earmarked for both in-house and contracted research...
...responsible for the acoustical double life that so many Americans are forced to lead. Urbanization and the consequent spurt in apartment living, together with high costs, put a premium on smaller rooms, lower ceilings, cheaper materials. And the modern vogue for the light and glassy rather than the solid and massive, says Acoustical Engineer Leo Beranek, seems to be based "not on function but on poetry. Spaces are not isolated, but continue without barrier through glass, grilles and gardens. But continuous structures and the open plan are inimical to quiet living." From one room to another flow the sounds...
Director Nicholas Webster made excellent use of his cameras and of the simple but solid sets. The costumes, inspired by archaic statues and vase paintings, were well designed and made of top-grade material. And finally, a word must be said for the stunning quality of the film's Anscocolor processing...
Scientists are less sure what comets look like. They weigh perhaps a trillion tons, or one billionth the mass of the earth. There is probably a central region, or nucleus, of about five miles of solid material. This could be one solid rock or a collection of rocks. Some scientists think there is no nucleus...