Word: complexity
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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Forthright Answer. Nixon reminded North Carolinians that he had lived in the South, indeed had spent three years at the Duke University Law School in Durham. N.C., and knew that civil rights are "a difficult and complex problem." He had a forthright answer to a question about the Southwide Negro sit-in movement begun in Greensboro last February: "Any American is entitled to go into a store to buy products, and should have the same right as any other American to use all the facilities of that store without discrimination." And without saying anything to lose any Negro votes...
...Discoverer XIII serenely circled the earth, a control station some 300 miles below, in Kodiak, Alaska, took charge. On the satellite's 17th orbit, up to it came an electronic command: Release the instrument capsule. The order triggered a complex, irrevocable sequence of 22 events which permitted no margin for error. Jets first swept the 1,800-lb. satellite's nose downward until it pointed to earth at a 60° angle. Pins kicked loose, freeing the 349-lb. instrument capsule for its descent to earth, and the newly installed gas jets immediately set it spinning...
...suffers periodic, crippling talent raids not only by its wealthy rivals but by the other papers in the Scripps-Howard chain; the Press has lost three managing editors in the last ten years. All this might be expected to give the Press a real weak-sister inferiority complex. Not so: it happens to be the brashest, liveliest and most voluble paper in town...
When plans were first drawn for the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1912, the architect envisioned a grey, classic complex along the Charles River, with no building higher than five stories and a softly rounded dome providing the grace note. But in recent years, expanding M.I.T. has felt cramped on its 115-acre Cambridge campus. Something had to give, and what gave was M.I.T.'s low-lying skyline. The next addition to the campus, to be ready by 1962, will be the 20-story, $5,000,000 Earth Sciences* Center, designed by Alumnus Ieoh Ming...
...Simple Way. Son of an Ohio farmer, Galbreath worked his way through Ohio University, got his start in real estate in Columbus, which is still company headquarters. His chief talent is thinking up simple solutions to complex problems; his first big break came during the Depression. Life insurance and building-and-loan companies in Columbus, swamped with defaulted property, had no cash to redeem $100 certificates which were being traded as low as $40. Galbreath organized syndicates of well-heeled property owners to buy up the certificates at the going price, turn them into the companies at $100 face value...