Word: failed
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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...Fail-Safe. At sea all hands take exquisite pains to keep the encapsuled atmosphere habitable. Navy chemists know that animal fats break down during cooking and give off eye-irritating chemicals, so ship's cooks use vegetable fats instead of lard. Bleaches are forbidden in the ships' laundries; they release chlorine that would contaminate the atmosphere. Aerosol shaving creams are prohibited because of their Freon gas. Ship's doctors must guard their clinical thermometers carefully; if broken, their mercury might evaporate into deadly fumes. But as important as the air itself is the attention to the inner...
Even when underwater. Polaris submarines keep constant contact with the Navy's new. long-wave (very low frequency) transmitting stations. But since the ships are on their own, the Navy has an elaborate, secret "Fail-Safe'' countdown system that would prevent any captain, or any other officer who has cracked under the tension of his job, from declaring war on his own. One key provision: no missile can be fired without the joint order of the skipper and his executive officer...
...comic talent of the new school of Gallic cinema. Considering his youth and inexperience, De Broca's technique is startlingly mature. He has a frenzied flair for sight and prop gags, but he never lets them disturb the deeper humor of the scene-many moviegoers may for instance fail to observe that the painter-hero cleans his brushes on, of all things, an old black...
...nation's prodigal waste of talent is no myth. About 20% of those in the upper quarter of their class do not stay on through high school; about half of the top 10% of high school seniors do not go to college; 40% of all college students fail to graduate. In sum: each year 400,000 talented U.S. youngsters quit school and college...
Eastern Air Lines, once one of the nation's most profitable airlines, had sad news for stockholders last week. For the first nine months of the year, it lost $5.7 million, is likely to finish the year in the red and fail to make money for the first time since its incorporation in 1938. American Airlines reported that its earnings for the first nine months slid to $6,924,000 (v. $10,132,000 for the same period last year...