Word: subbing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...HHFA, which now forms the core of the new department, has been what Weaver calls an "administrative monstrosity," comprising five major sub-agencies that have not always worked together-or with Weaver. Under the new law, the Housing and Urban Development Secretary gets authority to bring his subordinate offices into line. Weaver's responsibilities will doubtless grow fast. A presidential committee headed by Dr. Robert C. Wood, 42, chairman of M.I.T.'s political-science department, has reported to the President on what additional functions-such as air pollution control-HUD should acquire. Which of the still-secret proposals...
...trial lawyer he was before entering Congress. He refused to inject himself as a private manipulator between Quill and the Transit Authority, insisted that the three-man team of mediators be the only go-between. He made it clear that labor would no longer be able to make any sub rosa deals with the mayor...
Except for cyclists, who find that decreased air resistance can make up for the effects of decreased oxygen for as long as five minutes, a competitor in an event that lasts more than about 1½ minutes will almost certainly turn in a sub-par performance. Says Dr. Hanley: "We found that boxers in Mexico City who were used to two-minute rounds really had problems when the rounds ran three minutes...
...correct these inaccuracies. Instead, it claimed the biggest victories of all, until it began to make all war reporting look ridiculous. On one occasion, when the press was clucking in astonishment over a German submarine that had traveled as far as the U.S. coast, the Duck announced that the sub had done even better than that-it had been built and launched in Baltimore. The other French papers excitedly picked up the story. Exulted the Duck: "The stupidity of these great papers is so enormous that they fell upon this fable like a pig on a truffle...
Died. Dr. William Randolph Lovelace II, 57, pioneering space doctor and NASA's director of medicine; of exposure after the crash of his twin-engine Beechcraft in sub-zero weather near Aspen in the Colorado Rockies which also cost the lives of his wife and the pilot. A onetime Mayo Clinic surgeon, Lovelace turned to aerospace as wartime head of Army Air Forces medical research at Wright Field; he developed the first satisfactory oxygen mask for high-altitude flight, and played a role in virtually every major high-altitude development since, thus becoming NASA's inevitable choice...