Word: vacuum
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...year that tuition was raised from $150 to $200, the CRIMSON put forth the bold suggestion that college goodies exchange brooms for vacuum cleaners, "Which sort the particles out of the very depths of one's Axminster for good...
...preparation for his step-out into space, White spent 60 hours in vacuume chambers that simulated altitudes of up to 180,000 ft. Patiently, he practiced moving about in the suit he would wear outside the capsule. Weighing 31 lbs and costing over $30,000, the garment is a marvel of cautious construction With 22 layers, it acts as a coat ot armor, as a heat repellant, as protection from deep-freeze temperatures, and as a pressure force to keep White s body from exploding in the near-vacuum of space. Yet it also allows a certain freedom of movement...
...aggression, subversion so subtle that it can sometimes be exported without a fingerprint." Today's world, Stevenson warned, "is too volatile to permit the spread of militant violence. And until the international community is ready to rescue victims of clandestine aggression, national power will have to fill the vacuum. It is the most costly, the most dangerous and the least desirable kind of peace-keeping-and the sooner it becomes unnecessary, the better it will...
...recital of facts has given way to more sophisticated profiles, both pictorially and substantively. Most writers have adopted the interview transcript technique with varying degrees of success in grace and content. But this method usually seems artifical and makes the man unreal, since it often discusses him in a vacuum. Somehow a teacher doesn't seem truly intelligent or particularly worth knowing until the author can maintain an objective tone and a critical stance. Of fifteen profiles, only three-Andrew Weil on Jerome Bruner, Michael O'Hare's defense of Jose Luis Sert, and Nancy Tobey on Len Gittleman--reach...
...risen 1% , public transportation 2.5%, medical care 2.3%, services 4.2%, and clothing nearly 1%; conversely, the consumer is paying 1.3% less than a year ago for appliances, 1% less for new autos and .4% less for furniture. Today's consumers can buy such mainline items as washing machines, vacuum cleaners, kitchen ranges, garbage disposers, tape recorders, radios and black-and-white TV sets for less than a year...