Word: steers
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...developing it into a practical instrument that can view a scene and make instant, frog-quick decisions. Unblinkingly focused on a radar scope, it might report only those aircraft or missiles that are potentially hostile. In an even more refined version, it could ride in a missile and steer its warhead toward targets that it had been trained to seek...
Once inside, Philip began to steer the company away from making "pompous imitations of the past." Carefully selecting artists whose works span the spectrum of contemporary design, he recruited Raymond Loewy, France's Raymond Peynet. Finland's Tapio Wirkkala, and Germany's Hans Theo Baumann. From their designs the company produced its simple, elegant Studio Line. As the Studio Line's sales rose, so did Philip's influence in the company; in 1958 he became president. Though he has kept a good many older patterns for nostalgic buyers, the Studio Line now accounts...
...keep both happy-requires a delicate sense of balance. Levy has it. Speaking with an arresting German-Oxford accent, he can be as blunt in personal conversation as he is careful when it comes to delivering voluminous written reports for a potentate or an oil magnate. His ability to steer a middle course through the troubled waters of oil disputes has landed him as consultant in such hot spots as Suez and Iran. In 1959, he met privately with India's Prime Minister Nehru, tried to prevent him from being too ambitious in exploring for petroleum with Indian money...
When Egypt's President Gamal Abdel Nasser grabbed the Suez Canal 6½ years ago, his bitter enemies in Europe predicted that the big ditch would soon be filled with silt and that untrained Egyptian pilots would never be able to steer shipping through safely...
...even if the honorable old gentleman mangages to steer his reluctant wards through the coming two years, there is reason to question the wisdom of recent procedings. MacArthur was only able to do what he did because he represented the President. No solution was in sight before President Kennedy practically declared the dispute a national emergency and took Executive action. This intrusion of the federal government apparently will be permanent, as all groups concerned have asked the President to convene a national sports congress in 1965 to discuss long-range management of U.S. athletic competition. It is sad indeed when...