Word: weight
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...about the lunar terrain. At a Washington press conference, they announced that the moon's surface pre sented no great obstacles to a manned lunar landing; its consistency is almost earthlike, and its bearing strength -about 5 Ibs. per sq. in.-is more than enough to support the weight of Apollo's Lunar Excursion Module. "In one sentence," said JPL Project Scientist Leonard Jaffe, "the moon surface looks like a soil, not very hard, with rocks and clods...
Patronage & Bribes. Over the years, Adhemar accumulated a sizable fortune, and it was just as well that he did. For last week President Humberto Castello Branco, with the weight of the military behind him, suddenly fired Adhemar and canceled his political rights for ten years. The reason: Adhemar had turned against the revolution. The issue: who would succeed him at the end of his term in January...
...four of five fields. Harvard is in first place nine times to Berkeley's seven, in first or second place 16 times to Berkeley's nine. Not until we consider third position does Berkeley pull ahead by one department. Is it logical to assign as much weight to third place as to first? I am further confused by a classification that assigns three out of five main groupings to the pure or applied sciences and none to the arts, medicine, law, business or theology. I fail to see why it is more logical to divide engineering four ways...
...Tigers to 22 straight victories-still a record-Heisman Trophy Winner Richard William Kazmaier neatly straight-armed a pro draft ("With only one league, there was never that much money no matter how good you were"), opted for Harvard Business School. Now 35, his hair thinning slightly and his weight about ten pounds over his 171-lb. playing trim, Kazmaier figures he made the right choice. Last week American Machine and Foundry Co. made him a vice president and named him general manager of its Los Angeles-based Wen-Mac division, which makes toys, children's games and outdoor...
...Franklin D. Roosevelt '04 in May of 1940, remind him "to bend his efforts toward securing peace and not war for America." More than 300 students signed the petition and sent with it a naval artillery shell, World War I vintage, for the President to use as a paper weight. The signers vowed "never, under any circumstances, to follow in the footsteps of the students...