Word: finalizing
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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Candidate Nixon put his final week of enforced confinement to good use. He worked on the fine points of strategy and schedules with aides, named some citizens' committees to campaign for the ticket. He made the front pages with a proposal that the U.S. finance several new institutes to pursue basic scientific research. Most of all, the Vice President used the time to gather some much-needed new material for his speeches, as he had last July when he entered solitary confinement for one week to frame his successful Chicago acceptance speech...
...eight-man rowing final a fast-stroking German crew, using
revolutionary, shovel-shaped oars, defeated Canada by three-quarters of
a length, left the U.S. Naval Academy's rowers adrift in fifth place.
For the U.S. the loss was the first in the event since 1912.
Except for small and poor schools, or for stock parts in big schools, prefabrication is no final answer. For each school is a unique problem in tailoring costly space on differing sites and to different needs. ("Frfls" are often the cheapest item.) Today, the key word is "flexibility."' To keep pace with fast, shifts in population, schools must expand or contract. Portable classrooms (3,300 in Los Angeles) are one answer; wings that can later be dismantled or sold to business are another. But most important, tne flexible school is a hedge against educational oosolescence. Even the fancy...
Rossi's ray catcher at-Volcano Ranch is an array of scintillation counters that gives electrical signals whenever fast-moving particles hit it. If a shower looks interesting, its record is transferred to tabulator cards and analyzed by a computer at Kirtland Air Force Base. The final answer tells the ray's energy when it hit the top of the atmosphere and caused the shower...
...gave the record sheet (No. 026508) to Dr. John Linsley, one of her immediate superiors at the Volcano Ranch installation, but he put it aside for more pressing matters. Seven weeks ago it was processed and sent to the Kirtland com puter-thence back to Volcano Ranch for final appraisal...