Word: steers
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Like many other leaders of new African nations, President Jomo Kenyatta has not found it easy to steer a middle course between East and West. His job has not been made easier by the activities of his own Vice President, Oginga Odinga, who admits that "Communism is like food to me" and has been trav eling through the countryside heaping Red-tinged scorn on Kenyatta's ties with the West...
Burgeoning under the demands of a growing nation, post-Civil War Washington badly needed someone to steer outsiders to the right place. Ward became the guide, shepherding clients to the proper bureaus and pushing bills through Congress by means of his influence on Congressmen. He also became a power in his own right. He rallied support for the measures that saved U.S. currency from ruin after the Civil War, and he helped line up the votes that kept President Andrew Johnson from being impeached. He represented railroads, shipping lines, foreign nations, and even the Mormons, whom he helped...
...such as motions of the leg, feet, head or torso, were quickly rejected by Honeywell engineers as too difficult for an astronaut floating in a clumsy space suit. Somewhat more attractive was control by the astronaut's eye movements. A photocell watching the position of the eyeball could steer the astronaut to any target at which he looked steadily. But such control would not be enough. The astronaut would sometimes want to move backwards, and in any case he must always have his eyes free for looking from side to side. Control by small electrical currents generated when...
...ball out of the infield. Finally, in the eighth inning, Hofheinz gave up, growled an order-and the giant Scoreboard did its home-run trick. Lights flashed, skyrockets soared, gongs sounded, whistles shrieked, bells rang. Two cowboys appeared on the huge screen, firing six-guns, followed by a steer with a U.S. flag on one horn and the Lone Star on the other. Hofheinz sighed happily. "Nobody can ever see this," he said, "and still think that Houston is bush...
These ten stories steer misfit characters on wildly futile tacks toward identity. They are contemporary fairy tales, dreams embedded in urban concrete and spun from the thoughts of people who could not conceivably exist. But beneath the deceptive surface lurks the insistent point that reality and surreality are separated by no more than a crack in the sidewalk. Ishmael Ramos, for instance, is a young Puerto Rican who works in the boiler room at the Columbia University gym and for whom reality is wearing an undergraduate's outfit and rooting for Columbia's football team. He does...