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...Johnson is a hard taskmaster, and in recent months friends noticed that the pressures seemed to weigh heavily on Jenkins. He grew increasingly nervous, last January was told by his doctor to lighten his load because of dangerously high blood pressure. He ignored the advice, kept working hard for Johnson. And the work always seemed to be piling up. After one lengthy meeting with the President, Jenkins rushed back to his desk, found 43 telephone calls waiting to be answered...
...government won a majority of six, and Attlee was forced to call another election within 18 months, which Labor lost, starting the long Tory reign. During those 18 months, politicians used to crack: "Suppose there's an important vote in the Commons and a taxi carrying a full load of Labor M.P.s breaks down-out goes the government." As things are now, the taxi need not even carry a full load...
Variable Sweep. The trouble with conventional supersonic jet fighters is that they must sacrifice too much to gain high speed. They cannot carry much load, cruise any great distance, or land slowly on small or rough runways. The F-111 avoids these failings by using variable sweep wings, a difficult design concept that has been tried experimentally but never used in an operational airplane. When the wings are fully extended, they have hardly any sweepback, and the airplane looks oddly oldfashioned. In this condition it will fly with old-fashioned slowness. Then, as speed increases, the wings are swept backward...
...they took such risks in taming the wild West that the Justice Department was soon fretting that "no other occupation is so dangerous as a faithful performance of duty by U.S. marshals." The rise of other federal agencies, such as the FBI (founded in 1908), has lightened the load, but U.S. marshals are far from underemployed. They keep order in all federal courts, disburse...
...consequently found themselves without tutors this fall. The Department, taken aback by the 30 juniors who pounded on the door at the start of the year, has tried to accommodate as many of them as possible. It pressed every one of its teaching fellows to carry a maximum teaching load and thus found tutors for 14 of the late applicants. But it could not help those qualified among the remaining...