Word: specializes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Explorer itself was a special kind of reality. It was smaller and lighter than the Sputniks (30.80 lbs. v. Sputnik I's 184 lbs., Sputnik II's 1,120 lbs.). But its mere appearance in orbit only 84 days after Defense Secretary Neil McElroy's order to launch proved beyond doubt that the U.S., had it made the sensible policy decisions, could have launched the first satellite a year before as the Army urged (see below)-or 119 days before...
...South. Back in Washington, the President measured his work load against a sudden desire to get into warm country, found the balance in favor of a long weekend vacation. With the special messages on education ($1 billion over four years to step up U.S. education in the satellite age) and on reciprocal trade (see Foreign Trade) dispatched to Congress, the only big hurdle was a Friday-morning breakfast speech to the Republican national committeemen. Taking the hurdle in stride, the President got off the kind of no-clichés-barred political pep talk GOPoliticians wish he had delivered...
...made Chuck Starkweather kill eleven people. Psychiatrists attributed it to mild paranoia, Starkweather's friends mentioned the fact that his plans for marriage had been opposed by both families; his father guessed it was mainly a slow boy growing up too fast. Home again and locked in a special cell at the Nebraska penitentiary, Chuck himself showed signs of realizing that in the end the world had beaten him. He had been gay and insolent earlier; now, in ultimate defeat, he blinked his myopic eyes and became sullen and silent...
...least 35 of the students who gathered for the special class at Benson Polytechnic High School in Portland, Ore. last week had reason to feel a little ill at ease. They were all local high-school teachers, and there they were with 45 of the brightest boys and girls in town, taking a course as if they were still in their teens. "Let us not let our blood pressure go up." said Instructor William Matson soothingly. "Let us not let our hearts beat too fast." Then he began his lecture on the complexities of modern mathematics...
CAPITAL AIRLINES will get special deal from General Dynamics Corp. to buy Convair jet airliners. Deal is for 15 Convair 880 jets worth $60 million, which G.D. will help finance in addition to helping Capital refinance some $48.5 million still owed on its current fleet of British-built Vickers Viscount turboprops...