Word: towards
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Tomorrow's Men. As the man who leads the U.S. race to beat the Russians to a workable ICBM, and who sparks the U.S. surge toward space, General Schriever has what has been called "the most important job in the country." But the measure of the coming missile age is that today's dedicated, visionary missilemen are no longer considered unique or eccentric or extreme...
...champion of all the North American continent's geophysical growing pains, and still one of the earth's most active, is the San Andreas Fault, which begins in northern California, slashes south along the coastal mountains, and curves eastward down toward Mexico. The west side of San Andreas arcs steadily northward nearly 2 in. a year, grinding the two faces of the great crack in the earth's surface layers until something has to give and let the faces slip into realignment. The crumbling rock where the slip starts is the epicenter of an earthquake...
...main deck seemed to leap, and the 36½-in. cable "snapped back and forth like a clothesline." Two motorists on Highway I south of town scrambled out of their cars, in time to get away from the 400-yd. stretch of roadway that, already loose, was jogged down toward the ocean...
Gingery knew, as he put it later, "that something awful had happened." As he sat frozen in the seat, Hassett leaped from his car, raced across the road toward the police car with a pistol in each hand, obviously to kill what he thought was another policeman. "My first thought," said Gingery, "was that there's nothing I can do-nothing. He's coming to kill me." But the second thought was stronger: picking up a sawed-off shotgun from the front seat of the car, he worked frantically with the safety catch, released it just as Hassett...
...grants were determined by the size of student bodies, relative investments of the schools in research and teaching departments, special contributions toward advancement of the medical profession, and various other factors...