Word: spotting
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...loner, but his world is filled with friends. He knows the cop with the abused arches, the complaisant heiress, the slick saloon proprietor, the sick comic, the sullen stoolie who talks in the guarded whisper of cell block and exercise yard. He is furiously honest, but he can spot a rigged wheel with a sharper's skill. He is hard-muscled, handsome, handy with a snub-nosed, 38, and his hide is as tough as the bluing on a pistol barrel. Decent, disillusioned and altogether incredible, he is a soap opera Superman. He is television's "Private...
...Martin-made missile lifted into a steep arc, soared "within ten miles" of Explorer VI, 156 miles up. It then continued squarely on course, plunking into the ocean 1,000 miles from the launch spot. The Air Force's argument: an airborne ballistic missile like Bold Orion, mounted on a long-endurance B70 bomber, would provide instantaneous retaliation against aggression, from a missile base that would be difficult to pinpoint and knock out; it might also be used against enemy satellites or spaceships. ¶Next day an Army solid-fuel Nike-Zeus anti-missile missile streaked across the skies...
...disadvantages in which Florence is rich: the noise, the occasional rudeness, the oppressive summer heat, the lack of nighttime pleasures, the daytime drabness. It is true, she says, that because of the frightening traffic, "Many of the famous monuments have become, quite literally, invisible, for lack of a spot from which they can be viewed with safety." And it is maddeningly true that "As for the museums, they are the worst-organized, the worst-hung in Italy-a scandal, as the Florentines say themselves, with a certain civic pride." With these strictures out of the way, there begins a portrait...
...weaknesses. Though it has to its credit the improvement of transport and communications lines between its Middle Eastern members, CENTO still has no unified military command; the real muscle guarding the Northern Tier is supplied by the bilateral U.S. treaties. And CENTO still has a soft spot in Iran, where Russian pressure alternates between threats and blandishments in an effort to force Shah Mohammed Reza Pahlevi into the neutralist path...
...spot a potentially delinquent boy years before he lands in court the Gluecks mainly pinpoint what they call the "five highly decisive" factors in family life: father's discipline, mother's supervision, father's affection toward his son, mother's affection, cohesiveness of the family. In turn, each factor is measured by degrees...