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...except for four hours every other day. Then last week came Typhoon Ida, which tragically left five dead, thousands homeless, but pushed water storage in reservoirs up to triple last year's levels. The government felt so well off that it boosted the water schedule to an unheard-of eight hours...
...Effect. Schriever was so confident of Minuteman's feasibility that he saved a full year by ordering all three stages and all systems of a Minuteman fired as a unit on the first test-an unheard-of procedure in the normal piece-by-piece sequence of missile development. Reports an official Air Force history: "The results were sensational. All stages worked perfectly, the guidance system performed accurately, and the instrumented re-entry vehicle made a very near miss on a target some 4,000 miles downrange." Minuteman, in Schriever's view, has tipped the missile scales heavily...
...hats and gloves, held their skirt off the sidewalk, and had all their shoebuttons buttoned." Sometimes a very brave girl might "sit on a bench in the Commons for a while. This way she might see Harvard undergraduates from time to time, but speaking to them was of course unheard...
...upon the nature of the legislature. In a body with serious ideological splits and strict party discipline, little individual bargaining and compromising is possible. The voting strength of the various blocs within the full membership determines which bills can be passed. In the U.S. Congress, party discipline is almost unheard...
...there to be naturalized, a process that Irish-controlled Tammany Hall had made easy. Inside the saloon, everybody was handed a red card stating: "Please naturalize the bearer." Card in hand, the bearer went to court, where Tammany judges naturalized as many as 150 at a time. Tests were unheard...