Word: avoiding
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...railroading in his teens as a station agent's helper. In addition to taking tickets, conductors act as straw bosses while the train is on the road. They are supposed to see that other crewmen are on the job, and that the train moves smoothly enough to avoid discomfort to passengers or damage to freight. Brakemen used to be train-top daredevils who leaped from car to car, setting hand brakes at each stop. Automatic braking equipment has made the job a lot safer, but it has also made brakemen semi-obsolete. They now serve as lookouts at front...
...prosperity depends on a sound dollar. "The U.S. payments-balance deficit could not, in fact, be allowed to go on any longer," said French Finance Minister Giscard d'Estaing. Added Dr. Otmar Emminger, chief of the German Federal Bank: "The U.S. has taken ingenious measures that avoid direct exchange controls and do not affect its domestic economy...
There is much about the Shaws' relationship that will never be known, though English Authoress Janet Dunbar's sympathetic biography tells a great deal about the little-appreciated Mrs. G.B.S. Perhaps to avoid the temptation to take Shaw too seriously, she does not mention what is surely one of the most intriguing epitaphs ever composed by a bereaved husband. Disapproving of "sympathies, regrets, condolences" after Charlotte's death, G.B.S. told, instead, the story of an Indian prince's favorite wife. "When banqueting with him," wrote G.B.S., "she caught fire and was burned to ashes before...
...East German border. Obacz crammed his wife and two sons, Lester, 9, and Christopher, 5, into the rear seat of a prop-driven, two-seater training plane. Only after they were aloft did he tell them-over the plane's intercom-that he was making a break. To avoid Communist radar detection, he hedgehopped over the ground, never flew higher than 150 ft. throughout the entire 150-mile trip. When one Polish ground station called for his location, Obacz did not reply...
...National Aeronautics and Space Administration, the Government agency that employs the spacemen and has final say on any of their commercial activities. In the dickering, NASA lawyers insisted that the Government approve astronauts' stories before publication. Field agreed, but stood firm on a contract provision requiring NASA to avoid un reasonable delay. When NASA balked, Field called it quits. "At the rate we were going, it looked as if we were going to get a man on the moon before we got a contract," said Field President Bailey Howard...