Word: wrighting
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...praised the striking smalltown, big-name architecture (including work by such distinguished designers as I. M. Pei and the late Eero Saarinen). At Ironwood, Mich., she dedicated a park. At Avoca and Spring Green, Wis., she toured a dairy farm and chatted with the widow of Frank Lloyd Wright. ID. Madison, after spending the night with Republican Governor and Mrs. Warren Knowles, she talked to 3,000 youngsters attending the World Youth Forum of the World Food Exposition. Then she flew back to Washington...
...early version of the Wankel, used in the NSU Spider sports car since 1964, proved sufficiently promising for NSU to go ahead with the venture and commit virtually all its resources to it. Meanwhile, 17 firms, including Curtiss-Wright Corp. and Outboard Marine Corp. in the U.S., Rolls-Royce in England and Alfa Romeo in Italy have paid NSU for licenses for the new engine. Citroen of France set up a joint corporation with the small German carmaker to produce a Wankel-powered auto by the beginning...
...obstacles, such as rocks half the height of the inflatable bag. Deflated in flight, the ACLG hugs the bottom of the aircraft without causing aerodynamic drag. "We consider the ACLG a complete technological breakthrough in landing systems," says David Perez, civilian project officer in the Flight Dynamics Laboratory at Wright-Patterson A.F.B., Dayton. And so last year, the Air Force awarded Bell a $99,000 contract for wind-tunnel tests of the ACLG. Now Bell has won a second contract for $98,700 to study possible use of its ACLG on the Air Force's C-119 "Flying Boxcar...
...Wright calls for "rehabilitation and not relief." He rejects the noblesse oblige of an aristocracy-whether of race or of class--that operates within a system of "semi-immutable power relationships." He calls instead for action to bring human life to its full development, regardless of changes in power relationships which this will involve. "Human relationships," says Wright, "are not to be conceived in static terms...
...Wright's answer is a simple "yes." His book cannot outline a program which has not yet been conceived. But of all speeches and writings in this area, it comes closet to setting the tone and parameters within which such a program might be created. The most staid of the Black Power advocates. Floyd McKissick, and Wright are in some sense transitional men. They articulate grievances and point the way for change. They seek to mobilize the resources of the entire Negro community, impossible as it may seem, in a first plunge into group politics and economic activity--a plunge...