Word: impactions
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...Aeronautics and Space Administration official lamented: "All we've got is an idiot with a radio signal." But idiot or not, for the first time, the U.S. had actually hit the moon with a missile-a missile that destroyed itself and its cargo in a 6,000-m.p.h. impact...
...Sense of Service. Such criticism does not disturb John Hohenberg, 56, the Advisory Board's secretary and a 32-year veteran of New York newspapering (World, Journal-American, Post}. "The principal impact of the Pulitzer prizes on American journalism," says Hohenberg, 'has been to develop within the American newspaper a sense of public service." Chances are that despite the impact of the Pulitzer prizes, journalism's sense of public service has always been there. The prizes were founded in an era when such journalistic crusaders as Lincoln Steffens and Joseph Pulitzer himself loomed larger than life...
...could make a better case for itself if it quit trying to defend its fiscal policies on the basis of the "administrative budget"-the accounting method under which the U.S. Government traditionally explains its financial position to Congress and the public. They say that the Government's real impact on the economy is more accurately revealed by something called the "national income" system of accounting-an alternate method of budget reckoning that the Administration first published as a supplement to the regular budget review last November...
Here, and at the end of his talk, Marshall cut off the applause--lowered the impact by moving quickly to his next point. As the audience rose to applaud the end of his address, the Secretary took off his glasses, leaned forward on the lectern, and reached into his pocket for some scribbled supplementary remarks. Then he reiterated his earlier point, "the vast importance that our people reach some general understanding of what the complications really are, rather than react from a passion or prejudice or an emotion of the moment." It was this gesture that led many members...
...strap the rockets under the wings of their Vulcan bombers.) A combat-ready B-52 will carry four Sky-bolts under its wings, each armed with a nuclear warhead that will make it as devastating as the submarine-borne Polaris missiles that are now in service. Both in eventual impact and versatility on the way to its target, Skybolt is an impressive testament to nuclear age technology...