Word: weighs
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...handsomely dressed in a conservative suit of dark blue. No general, no admiral, but a civilian, he has the imposing job of seeing that the story of national defense gets told fully and well-a duty of exquisite sensitivity. Against the strictures of national security he must nicely weigh the nation's right to know. He must assure that the enemy is steadily impressed with the facts of U.S. deterrent might. The man in this crucial job is Murray Snyder, 47, ex-reporter. His title: Assistant Secretary of Defense for Public Affairs...
...account of labor's rise, e.g., the bitter, bloody Teamsters strike in Minneapolis, without reflecting on the monstrous extremes of power which the downtrodden of yesterday have reached. A future historian, not so solid as Schlesinger on the do-gooding glamour of it all. may yet weigh the memorable reforms accomplished by the New Deal against its ominous drive toward the welfare state...
...overstaffed, the college lost a good man when Treasurer Joseph Heywood tried to prevent an unauthorized withdrawal from the bank he served as cashier-and was gunned down by Jesse James's boys. If the Congregational college's endowment vanished with the Missouri badman, it did not weigh heavily in his saddlebags; at any rate, Carleton-named first for the town of Northfield, later renamed for Boston Benefactor William Carleton-survived...
Most exotic cargo aboard the Atlas are two recorder-transmitters. Carried in a special pod on the rocket's side, the instruments weigh an estimated 100 lbs. each, are capable of receiving, recording, and rebroadcasting messages on signal from the ground. President Eisenhower's voice, recorded on tape ahead of time, was sent up in the instrument package. After the Atlas made twelve trips around the earth, a radio station at Cape Canaveral gave it a coded signal that triggered one of its transmitters. Down from space came the President's message, scratchy but intelligible...
Outward Bound. A sail 50 yds. in diameter, Dr. Cotter figures, should weigh only 25 lbs., leaving 25 lbs. for the hull, instruments and controls. This gossamer structure, more delicate than a firefly's wing, would be strong enough for sailing in space. Meteors would punch small holes in it but do no serious damage. It ought to remain spaceworthy for many years...