Word: commandism
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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...break, a sensational murder, some hanky-panky at city hall-the city editor called for the star and plastered his colorful prose all over the front page. This was nice work. But the oldtime star needed no special knowledge in any field, little formal education, and often no real command of the language...
Schmick Jr., who has served as executive vice president since 1953, has been chosen to succeed his father as president." So saying, the Sun dropped the subject, confident that Baltimoreans, accustomed to the unhurried. 123-year continuum of their favorite newspaper, would accept the change in command without losing any sleep. Baltimoreans...
...dogmatic leftists in the party, this was heresy, a betrayal of socialist principles; only a single commanding speech by Labor's fiery second-in-command, Aneurin Bevan, standing by his leader, kept the party conference from falling apart in November. Nye Bevan, after a major abdominal operation, is down to a scant 140 Ibs., and living in seclusion on his Buckinghamshire farm. With Nye out of action, socialist left-wingers rose in open revolt, and the party leadership split in warring factions. Instead of stumping the country like Gladstone to stir up mass support for a new Opposition policy...
...Jodrell Bank, just south of Manchester, England. At a control panel was Bill Young of Los Angeles, who adjusted knobs and switches and then told the princess: "You push this button in one minute, 15 seconds." Meg waited. When Young said "Push," she touched the button marked "Execute Command." Red and white lights showed on the control panel, telling Young and Princess Meg that a radio signal had started from the radio telescope and was speeding across space at light's speed (186,300 m.p.sec.) toward U.S. sun satellite Pioneer V. 1,040,000 miles away. About 25 seconds...
Turned on by command from Jodrell Bank or Hawaii, this eerie voice conveys information that is relayed by teletype to the Space Technology Laboratories, Los Angeles, where Pioneer V was built. There it is put on punched cards and fed into a computer. Out comes a flood of figures that STL-men interpret as the latest news about Pioneer's position and course...