Word: wall
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...look of the land and its yield, the state has never embraced the West's expansionist, assimilative outlook. Instead, in the eyes of the world it seemed aimlessly insular, obdurately independent-and comically backward. As then-Governor Charles Brough boasted 50 years ago: "You could build a wall around the state of Arkansas and its people would be self-sufficient...
...etching or carving out a cavity at the point where the arms and base leg of a fluidic circuit meet (see diagram), fluidics engineers can prevent the power stream from clinging to either wall. Instead, it flows down the center of the Y and divides equally between the two outlets. In this "anti-Coanda" configuration, the application of a control jet merely deflects the power stream by an amount proportional to the intensity of the jet. As the output of the two legs varies with the strength of the control jet, the fluidic circuit is once more something...
Preparing for the Worst. The prolific cooperation began three years ago when Evans, a veteran Washington reporter for the New York Herald Tribune, approached Novak, a congressional reporter for the Wall Street Journal, and talked him into giving the column a try. Evans, who was close to the New Frontier, and Novak, a Midwestern Republican, hit it off from the start. Their work habits differ-Evans usually meets a source over breakfast; Novak prefers to make his contacts at lunch-but they pool their information. They take turns writing the column, and they edit each other. "We use each other...
...Southern Baptist Convention, the wall of separation between church and state is almost as sacred as the infallibility of the Bible. For administrators of Southern Baptist colleges and hospitals, the ready availability of federal grants and loans is a tempting answer to the pressing need for expanded facilities. At the annual meetings of the Southern Baptist state conventions last month, federal aid was unquestionably the leading topic of debate-and the wide variety of conclusions reached by the "messengers" (delegates) measured the extent to which it has become a real problem for the nation's largest Protestant faith...
Married. Pamela Drexel, 24, a student at Manhattan's New School for Social Research, whose blue blood flows from the Philadelphia banking Drexels and from Baron Camoys who fought at Agincourt; and Bradford Walker, 26, a Wall Street stockbroker whose great-great-great-great-great-great-greatgrandfather was Governor William Bradford of the Plymouth Colony; in Manhattan...