Word: groups
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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...director, Professor Charles Stark Draper, is the Grand Panjandrum of inertial guidance. Early in World War II, Draper became convinced that bombsights could be made enormously more accurate by stabilizing them with improved gyroscopes. When long-range missiles came into the picture after the war, Draper and his M.I.T. group began developing gyroscopic instruments to steer the rockets through...
...Grow On. In Grise Fjord, on Ellesmere Island, Canada, unable to read the instructions for assembling five prefabricated houses, a group of Eskimos did the best they could, built...
...gregarious "coffeehouse guy," he mixes at all levels of the Hollywood social scale-in the Holmby Hills Rat Pack (Frank Sinatra), in the Kosher Rat Pack (Groucho Marx and friends), even in the exclusive A Group (top studio brass and long-established superstars, like Gary Cooper). For all his gregariousness, he can be cruel without reason, successfully plays the domestic tyrant. At dinner one evening, his wife Audrey announced brightly: "Darling, do you realize this is our anniversary?" Replied Wilder: "Please-not while I'm eating." Says Playwright George Axelrod: "Billy is essentially, not personally, mean. Most...
...masculine society of private enterprisers and empire builders -egotists to whom opportunism and ornery behavior were no sin-the modern U.S. rates teamwork and sociability high virtues. It is a world in which the in dividual is expected to play a relatively more passive role within the group...
...Chicago this week Federal Judge Julius Miner has ordered Sayen to explain why such a basically healthy group as the pilots should suddenly suffer so many illnesses. He advised Sayen to be armed with medical affidavits to back up his case...