Word: weighting
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...missilemen at the Pentagon and Cape Canaveral studied the figures, agreed that the Russians were ahead in terms of weight of payload, propulsion power, general rocket reliability. The U.S.S.R.'s rocket was also the first far-out Russian rocket detected by U.S. tracking systems. Whatever their secret launching-pad failures, the Russians apparently scored with the first rocket they got off the ground...
...Warren exercised sufficient tenacity to become an Oriental scholar of the first im- portance. For as long as possible he worked standing, with the aid of crutches. Soon, however, even this method became impossible. He then devised a system in which he worked kneeling upon a chair, supporting his weight by leaning upon his elbows. The incessant pain was so great that, in order to sleep, he had a special bed constructed. It is actually a small room built into the wall. The compartment is equipped with heating, ventilation and a roll-top cover which slides down, covering the niche...
Since the high school seniors affected by the shutdown will be accepted into colleges in the South without any difficulty, the weight of a Harvard decision to reject them would be negligible. It might, moreover, discourage southern applicants on a broader scale, and it would also be an unfortunate precedent in an admissions policy which tries to consider individuals rather than quotas or IBM statistics...
...melted back. Last week Professor Richard J. Lougee of Clark University, Worcester, Mass., offered a new theory. At the Washington meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, he argued that the glacier did not retreat, but stayed in place so long that its enormous weight pushed a giant dimple in the earth's crust. When the glacier finally began to recede, the dimple filled with water and became an inland...
Born. To Rory Calhoun (real name: Francis Timothy Durgin), 36, cinemactor, and Lita Baron, 28, Spanish-born onetime singer for Bandleader Xavier Cugat: their second child, second daughter; in Santa Monica, Calif. Name: Tami Diane. Weight...