Word: rigidities
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...U.S.S. Squalus went down in 1939.* On Friday morning last week, Portsmouth marines marched to the Portsmouth flag mast. Drums and bugles sounded a muted dirge as the flag ran to the top, then fluttered down slowly to half-staff. The bustling base became silent. Military men snapped to rigid salutes; civilian workers stood with heads bowed, and a burly mechanic cupped his safety helmet over his heart and cried like a child...
...line of four-four balance until the real rhythmic message is felt more than heard. The time values involved are microscopic: big bands rarely manage to swing because the inner rhythms are blurred by imprecise ensemble playing; classical jazz cannot swing because the composer's notation is too rigid...
Spokesmen for the Government Department responded yesterday to the HCUA's recent charges by explaining that Gov. 1 bases its grading on a "broad flexible standard" and not a "rigid quota system...
...Malays have built some walls of their own. By Malayan law. only one-quarter of the government jobs can go to non-Malays, while Malays get special concessions in the granting of scholarships and licenses for new businesses. Rigid citizenship requirements have been set up for the Chinese (Malays are automatically citizens), and the Borneo territories plan immigration restrictions to keep Chinese businessmen out. "Special privileges are like a golf handicap." rationalizes Malaya's Chinese Finance Minister Tan Siew Sin. "They are not to hold the Chinese down, but to help the Malays along...
...paid for the accelerator and thus technically owns it, Harvard owns the land on which the CEA stands. And only Harvard and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology are actually empowered to operate the facility. In all probability, the main reason the AEC backed down from its original rigid demands is that it feared the spectacle of a $12 million electron accelerator standing idle in Cambridge...