Word: specializations
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Gibbons is quick to point out that Massachusetts, for the first time in its history, failed to have a balanced budget this year. He claims that the Governor is planning to call a special session of the lgislature after the elections to impose new taxes in order to change this situation...
Linda S. Mirin '59, founder of the Committee to Study Disarmament, emphasized that Radcliffe had a special responsibility to take a stand on the recent "coup" because the Committee was the first group "formed as a merged organization" and established at Radcliffe initiative...
...time Astaire appeared on-screen last week, the networks were desolate from days of embarrassment. It should have been a great week, with no fewer than eight "specials" scheduled, costing a total of $1,500,000. Yet most of them were disappointing. On CBS, the musical version of Little Women was a dreary mistake; the miracle of Bernadette was a sugar-coated bomb. Even with French Clown Fernandel to help him, NBC's Bob Hope was merely routine; the mute, moving eloquence of Julie Harris in Johnny Belinda was all that was meaningful in a moldy melodrama. Ginger Rogers...
Steam Steering. Operation at such dizzy height and speed has posed special problems and produced oddities in design. X-15's large vertical stabilizers are wedge-shaped, as if their trailing portions had been cut off with a saw. Wind-tunnel tests have shown that such a wedge is more efficient than a conventional streamlined shape for keeping the X-15 aligned on course as the atmosphere thins out at high altitude...
...house on Dumbarton Avenue in Washington's Georgetown. He is respected, if not loved, by federal officialdom, which he frequently treats with the loftiness of the master ordering his vassals into line. "Admiral," he once said frostily, rising and thereby terminating an interview with Lewis Strauss, then special assistant to the President on atomic-energy matters, "you have wasted half an hour of my time...