Word: wrights
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...only really silly noises came from Congress. Texas Democrat Wright Patman, a cheap-money advocate who as chairman of the Senate-House Joint Economic Committee has waged a long feud with the Federal Reserve, announced that he would hold an investigation this week "to find out who is in charge in this country, the Reserve Board or the President of the United States." Louisiana's Russell Long, who will succeed Harry Byrd as chairman of the Senate Finance Committee when Congress reconvenes next month, showed his innocence of economics by protesting: "Nothing could be more unpopular than a major...
Criticism centers on the soaring roofs, which conceal the acoustical ceilings. The late Frank Lloyd Wright saw the roofs as so many "circus tents." Critic Lewis Mumford assailed the silhouette as serving "no other purpose than that of demonstrating the esthetic audacity of the designer." Utzon claims that the sails are a necessary departure from functionalism: "One could not have a flat roof filled with ventilation pipes." "I have made a sculpture," he says. "People will sail around it-so they will see it as a round thing, not as a house in a street...
Kick into Orbit. Sure that an experimental scramjet plane can be produced within six years, the Air Force has established a Scramjet Technology Division at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base in Dayton and has already begun awarding scramjet research contracts to aerospace companies...
Noting that fast-healing humans also had a high zinc content in their bodies, Air Force doctors began trying zinc on patients at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base in Ohio. They worked with men suffering from relatively common and painful pilonidal sinuses (which appear near the base of the spine), the removal of which leaves a cavernous wound. Six .men who had moderately large excisions and got only standard treatment took an average of 62 days for healing. Seven, with wound cavities averaging almost three times as large, healed in only 45 days. The only difference in treatment was that...
...formal academic world failed to inspire Booth, he synthesized his own philosophy by combining C. Wright Mills and Paul Goodman. Mills, he elaborated, depicts the distribution of political power in the U.S. and its irresponsible use, while Goodman emphasizes human potential and resourcefulness. A some what cynical outlook resulted, tempered by an ambition to actively challenge our political structure. Booth also admits that he consistantly read a British publication called the New Left Review...