Word: staying
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...final few seconds of the descent, while Bean read data from the instrument panel: "Forty-two ft., coming down at three [ft. per sec.]. Forty coming down at two. Looking good. Thirty-one, 30 ft., you've got plenty of gas, plenty of gas, Pete. Stay in there. Eighteen ft., coming down. He's got it made. Come on in there. Contact lights!" Although thick dust kicked up by the LM's rocket engine obscured his view during the last 30 to 40 ft. of the descent, Conrad coolly landed Intrepid a scant 20 ft. from...
Baker, the retiring dean, will go on sabbatical from January until August 31, 1970, when he will officially retire from the Business School faculty. During his stay at the Business School he never took a sabbatical. He said yesterday that "this is very happy all around...
...that he combines high energy with a low-key manner. "He's open-minded, unflappable, and doesn't get hooked on a single idea," says Provost Jerome Wiesner. Johnson, for example, laid down no rigid contingency plans for the demonstrations. His guiding principle, he says, was to stay flexible and avoid painting the administration into an ideological corner...
...decided to stay at the corner, because the whole block was already jammed with people, all kinds of people milling about, just as if we were all spectators at some great circus and the canvas was about to collapse all about us, but nobody quite knew how to panic. There was simply no way to characterize the crowd; the militants must have all been up front because they didn't seem to be in evidence. In the midst of everybody else was a button-hawker with a large, black-felt-covered board, dotted with all colors and sizes of peace...
...Justice Sullivan denied a motion by Offner's lawyer, Daniel Klubock, to stay the execution of the sentence pending an appeal to the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court, but Sullivan did grant a one-week postponement to give Offner time to put his affairs in order...