Word: weighting
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Money Game, 'Adam Smith' (2) 3. The American Challenge, Servan-Schreiber (4) 4. The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test, Wolfe (3) 5. Iberia, Michener (5) 6. The Case Against Congress, Pearson and Anderson 7. Between Parent and Child, Ginott (6) 8. The Doctor's Quick Weight Loss Diet, Stillman and Baker (8) 9. Soul on Ice, Cleaver (7) 10. The Naked Ape, Morris...
...decided that even to work on such an Essay was begging for trouble. Sure enough, while he was reporting, he tried to interview a fortuneteller and she stood him up. When he invested a penny in a drugstore scale, he got back a card on which was printed his weight and the warning: "Watch your step...
...little doubt that the Russians are racing to send a manned flight around the moon ahead of the U.S. which now plans to fly three astronauts on a lunar mission in December. The number of Russian space launchings announced this year-36 to only 18 for the U.S.-adds weight to the theory that the Soviets are working overtime on their space program...
...understandably red-faced, denies somewhat defensively that it has made a final decision. But the economics of its swing-wing B-2707 has forced the Seattle company to put practicality over pride. Although wind-tunnel tests showed that the movable wing could perform well aerodynamically, it developed an insuperable weight problem. Carrying the 313-passenger payload envisioned for it, the 375-ton swing-wing SST would have had about one-half of its planned range of 4,600 miles-meaning that it would have run out of fuel over the Atlantic on a flight from New York to Paris...
Emulating such meticulous metaphysicians of suspense as Graham Greene and John Le Carré, Writer-Director Bryan Forbes tried to turn a routine story about the last personal and professional adventures of a gentleman robber into an existential parable. Sadly, the material is too airy to bear the weight of Forbes' meaningful silences and rambunctious camerawork. The arch dialogue is genuine tin (exhausted heroine to Caine: "Have you done it very often in strange rooms with girls who have husbands?"). In the best anti-hero tradition, Caine dies by bungling his last job, losing the girl and getting shot...