Word: keep
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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...standards, to pick eleventh-graders. This might cut multiple applications from twelfth-graders by as much as one-third, encourage more students to apply to good small colleges as their first choice. ¶ A "matching plan" in which colleges would accept students in staggered waves. A central agency would keep track of those not accepted in the first-choice wave. A second and third wave would follow, until all were placed in orderly fashion...
Discoverer is an ambitious craft. It car ries in it a complicated guidance system that watches the horizon with infra-red eyes and shoots high-pressure gas through a series of jets to keep the rocket horizontal in respect to the ground below. When a Discoverer - and there have been eleven fired so far - has circled the earth 17 times on a polar orbit, it passes over Kodiak, Alaska, where a radio control station sends an order that sets the guidance system on a new track, tilting it 60° from the horizontal. An electric impulse fires explosive bolts...
...pointing engine will have four tubes, each with two explosive valves, permitting it to be started and stopped four times by signal. The forward-pointing machine will have two tubes, giving it two starts and stops. Ground-controlled alternate firings of the forward and rearward engines are calculated to keep the orbiters on the right course, ease them into moon orbit at a speed of 5.000 ft. per sec. If the first shot works. S.T.L. may use its second or biter for a long-range crack at Venus which will be in a fairly good position next January...
Glove Men. Richards readily admitted that his team has no super star, no candidate for the batting title. "We try to choke off their runs, keep them down and let them give us the game," he said. "Our style is like punting and praying in football, or just hitting it back in tennis. You've got to start with the defense. If you can't get the other fella out, you can't win the game, no matter how many runs you score...
...Abraham Lincoln made a phone call from Gettysburg to his press-agent in Manhattan. Abe was rebellious. He was going to shave his beard and wear a cardigan. The flack demanded that he keep the beard, shawl, stovepipe and string tie, or he would wreck his "image." Abe then announced that he had his speech neatly typed, and this distressed the flack even more. "Abe," pleaded the pressagent, "how many times have we told you: on-the-backs-of-envelopes...