Word: swifts
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...caravan of eight vehicles circled to a stop in the morning fog that lay on the floor of the open-pit Minnesota iron mine. With swift precision, the coveralled men of the launching crew lowered an eight-foot metal capsule-an elongated vacuum bottle-to the crater floor and attached to it a gigantic (280 ft. high), pear-shaped polyethylene balloon. Within the capsule, a balding Air Force space surgeon named Dave Simons stirred impatiently in his tight little world...
Much can be said for the inside board, to which many big and forward-looking firms still cling steadfastly. They argue that only the president and his executives-men intimately familiar with the corporation's daily operations-can make swift, sure policy decisions. International Shoe Co., the largest U.S. shoe manufacturer, has a 100% inside board to run its highly technical business; the U.S. petroleum industry also leans to inside boards, whose members know all the tricks and pitfalls of their risky business. Says Harmon Whittington, president of Anderson, Clayton & Co., world's largest private cotton broker...
...fiction has an honored tradition. It arises out of the craving for fantasy that has inspired writers since literature began; its space-time worlds and grisly "Things" are cousins to Homer's magical islands of monsters. But the old fictions made little pretense of being scientific (when Jonathan Swift gave Mars two satellites, he had little idea that his little joke would be proved true in the following century). Only with the great Jules Verne (1828-1905) did fantasy make a serious effort to build upon physics and mathematics...
...Every day has been so short, every hour so fleeting, every minute so filled with the life I love," wrote the Aga Khan in his autobiography three years ago, "that time for me has fled on too swift a wing." Last week swift-winged time came to an end for the legendary old Prince of Islam. In a quiet lakeside villa at Versoix, Switzerland, his huge bulk wasted to a mere 132 Ibs., His Highness Sir Sultan Mahomed Shah, the Aga Khan III and spiritual leader of some 20 million Ismaili Moslems throughout the East, the Middle East and Africa...
...budget ax that hangs over every U.S. planemaker fell with swift and painful force. In the first big cutback of the current economy drive, the Air Force last week issued a curt announcement that North American Aviation's rocket-and-ram-jet Navaho intercontinental guided missile was being washed out of the U.S. defense program. Down the drain went a project that has taken eleven years and between $500 million and $700 million to bring the Navaho within a few weeks of full-scale test flight. With it went the promise of another $1 billion in contracts for North...