Word: tabbing
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Senator Hugh Scott announced that the students would be coming to the U.S. on a State Department grant, and Jackie Robinson happily reported the news in his New York Post column. Then, when Senator Scott learned that the Ken nedys, and not the Government, would be picking up the tab, he took to the Senate floor in a boiling rage to denounce the Kennedys and their foundation. "The long arm of the family of the junior Senator from Massachusetts has reached out and attempted to pluck this project away from the U.S. Government," Scott rumbled. "At this moment, they appear...
...price of a ticket to the moon, in the children's nursery rhyme, was a single foundling penny and the method of transportation a kite. For the rocket-borne commercial space traveler of the future, the tab will be considerably higher-but still astonishingly low. In a detailed cost analysis presented to last week's international space symposium in Stockholm, three Douglas Aircraft Co. engineers estimated that a scant $500 should one day cover basic costs of one passenger's round-trip transportation, by nuclear spaceship, to the moon. The price to Mars: $4,000 during...
...even to get appointments for interviews. The drain on Cuba's supply of trained men-engineers, economists, doctors-last week persuaded Castro to cancel all existing exit permits. Henceforth, those who want to leave home must fill out an elaborately detailed questionnaire. Its aim was plain: to keep tab on those who are getting out and to provide a handy list of their assets in case they do not come back...
...true. Some had glumly believed that intensive Japanese deep-sea fishing had ruined the Alaskan salmon runs for good. Others had taken heart from the forecast of a good run by Dr. William F. Royce. director of the University of Washington's Fisheries Research Institute. Royce keeps tab on the number of young salmon moving down the rivers and into the sea and watches the results of test catches throughout the northeast Pacific. Historically, Bristol Bay salmon runs have followed a consistent cycle,* been smallest in years ending with 0 and 5. But Royce thought this was accidental, based...
...Congo airlift, in which U.S. planes played a significant role-call for quick responses. Last week the Air Force took a step toward more effective emergency responses to even bigger crises. It announced a $40 million contract for an automatic global communications-computer system that will keep constant tab on its men, missiles and planes, tell how best to use them...