Word: travelling
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Army may travel on its stomach, but defeat or victory rides on the generals' epaulets. The Sukhomlinov Effect -named after the sartorially smashing but strategically stumbling World War I Czarist War Minister, V.A. Sukhomlinov-suggests that the winners wear the least flashy uniforms. In the current issue of Horizon, Scholars Roger Beaumont and Bernard J. James review the dress of military leaders from bedraggled American colonists to pajamaed Viet Cong. With the exception of the drably turned-out forces on both sides of the Korean War, the gaudier the officers, the surer the defeat. Jump-suited Churchill was ordained...
...swoops downward, the moon ship Antares (named for the brightest star in the constellation Scorpius) will travel at a slightly flatter trajectory than in the past, letting Astronauts Shepard and Mitchell keep a steadier fix on their target. Although the landing will still be essentially under computer direction, Shepard will probably take over the vertical controls at an altitude of 300 ft. The actual touchdown, in a flat region between small features called Triplet and Doublet craters, should take place at 4:16 a.m. E.S.T. Friday...
...arranges all the travel from the time the team leaves Dillon Fieldhouse until the time it returns to Quincy Square. Most managers like to think that their successful planning of a trip has a measurable effect on the team's success the next day. One of the major aspects of the planning is finding a place for the team to stay...
...this year's [football] trip to Princeton we had everybody but a couple of the secretaries in the Department of Athletics, some people from the admissions department, and a few Faculty representatives come along," one manager explained. "We had a pretty good group travel down there with...
...course, there are always hangers on who travel with us," the manager replied...