Word: steers
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...fire the Walleye, the pilot points the bomb at the intended target until the camera has locked onto the object, which must be bright and distinct enough to stand out from the surroundings. Then, as the missile is released and glides groundward, the camera commands stubby fins that steer the projectile into the target. Increasingly, the Walleye is fixing its baleful stare on the few remaining choice targets in North Viet...
With former Book Week Editor Theo dore Solotaroff at the editorial helm, it is trying to steer a sprightly yet sober course-between being a vessel of the mad moment and a steady bearer of lasting literature. If it sometimes flounders in confusion, N.A.R., Number 1 is a more than welcome sight on current publishing waters, which are elsewhere choked with literary junks...
Auto Expert Ken VV. Purdy, author of the recently published Young People and Driving, believes that tougher, more realistic driving tests are the best bet. Most drivers, Purdy says, only learn to start, stop and steer. Tfte mark of a good driver is his ability to handle a skid, which almost no U.S. driving school teaches. And as a near infallible rule for staying out of trouble, Purdy cites the old truck drivers' maxim...
...kneed, wishy-washy liberal," as Barnett put it, Winter felt obliged to declare: "As a fifth-generation Mississippian whose grandfather rode with General Forrest, I was born a segregationist and raised a segregationist. I have always defended this position. I defend it now." Nonetheless, he has also managed to steer the debate toward Mississippi's myriad shortcomings-which include the nation's lowest per capita income ($1,751 v. a national average...
When he took over in 1965, NBC-TV's John Chancellor was the first working newsman ever to direct the Voice of America. His intention was to help shed its "institutional sound" - which too often was a bureaucratic defense of the incumbent Administration - and steer it closer to realistic journalism...