Word: problems
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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Paced by Byron ("Whizzer") White, national chairman of Citizens for Kennedy, Bobby headed for New York to face his biggest problem of the week-patching together the faction-torn New York Democratic organization...
...operation," Bobby explained later. "You can't leave it alone. That's what happened to Stevenson. You have to keep the peace all the time. Some little thing may happen that is totally insignificant by itself, but after 24 hours it may be a full-blown problem...
...Offenbach problem is that though the music is at least as intoxicating now as it could have been ninety or a hundred years ago, most of the libretti (including the one for La Belle Helene by Meilhac and Halevy) appear to be not for all time but of an age. The most obvious solution to the problem would be a recording or concert performance in the original--and, to most of us, impenetrable--French. But the music is so gracefully opposite to its subject matter that something of precious value is lost when there is no palpable context...
While much of the company's work is theoretical problem solving, some of it is quite practical. Sample: How do you find out how much fallout there is on a house from an atom blast without exploding a bomb? Tech Ops' answer was to build a scaled-down city, surround it with plastic tubing through which radioactive cobalt 60 is pumped, and then measure the fallout. The results are projected to a full-scale city. Through such experiments for the Office of Civil and Defense Mobilization, Tech Ops will make recommendations for realistic civil defense measures...
When the nation's biggest commuter railroad was shut down by a strike three weeks ago, 85,000 daily riders were faced with the problem of getting to work in New York City. As the Long Island Rail road strike dragged on with little sign of settlement, the hardy commuters last week seemed to have the situation well in hand. Their trips took longer or cost more, but by land, sea and air the daily assault on the city succeeded...