Word: complexity
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Natural Resources. "We are going to reverse the policy of no new starts. So vast, so complex and so essential are our natural resources that they cannot be parceled out piecemeal. I think it would be most useful to estab lish for the office of the President himself a council of resource and conservation advisers to survey the whole scope of our natural resources so that we can, as a country, not merely as a basin, develop the resources for 1970 and 1980." When the U.S. builds "a great dam, I don't think the people should...
...Negro who quit school after the fourth grade to work as a laborer in Pine Bluff, Ark. "Good education is important," says he. "My kids are going to graduate from high school." Last spring he heard incredible news: Dollarway School would accept Negro first-graders this fall under a complex placement test. John D. marched Delores, 6, straight to Dollarway. "Nigger," jeered a white crowd surrounding the pair, "why do you want to register her in a white school?" John D. answered quietly: "Because it is a public school." Then he took his child's hand and went about...
...fact, computer progress has outrun man's ability to prepare magnetic-tape instructions complex enough to keep the brains busy. The ideal computer would be one that operators can instruct verbally. Bell plans to build one able to hear and obey some 50 words...
...Texas built a mobile island crane that can be towed out to an offshore construction site, its legs sunk and anchored while it does its job. The job finished, the legs can be retracted, and the island crane towed to another site. Not all products are so complex-or necessary: a harassed doctor invented a candy-coated tongue depressor for examining children...
...project dear to the heart (such as it is) of East Germany's Communist Boss Walter Ulbricht. Ulbricht poured an estimated $60 million into a vast complex of plants around Dresden, assigned 20,000 workers to the task. East Germany's Communists tut-tutted at West Germany for buying its airliners abroad, and Neues Deutschland boasted that the BB-152 - a stubby four-engine turbojet designed to travel 500 m.p.h. and land safely on only 3,300 ft. of runway-would put the East Germans "into the forefront of international commercial aviation...