Word: slightingly
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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...satellite is weightless, the fuel might be anywhere in the partly empty tanks-perhaps gathered in a ball in the center. To coax it into a position where the pumps could get hold of it, two small, solid-fuel rockets are fired, giving the main rocket a slight forward push. The fuel responds momentarily as if to gravitation, settles to the rear of the tanks and is duly pumped into the combustion chamber...
...long shutdown, and the others did not suffer badly. Big Steel's Chairman Roger M. Blough summed up the industry's confidence for 1960 by announcing that his company will maintain an operating rate of between 90% and 95% of capacity during the first quarter, with only slight declines for the second and third quarters as users rebuild their inventories...
While both the Army, with a defense-spending share of $9.4 billion, and the Navy, at $11.7 billion, get slight increases over fiscal 1960, the Air Force, in its change to emphasis on missiles over rockets, takes a cut of $318 million, to a level of $18.6 billion. But with that money, the Air Force will be able to buy 72 more Atlas and 50 more Titan missiles, bringing its intercontinental ballistic missile force to a total of 270 by the end of 1963. Also scheduled for the Air Force: $350 million for 15 test models of the solid-fuel...
Reduction in the overall number of staph infections picked up by patients after they got to the hospital was slight, Dr. Barber concedes in the British Medical Journal, but in little more than a year two notable gains were chalked up: the severity of the infections declined, and the proportion of staph infections that could be knocked out with penicillin and tetracycline increased dramatically. In general, though no hard and fast conclusion could be drawn, resistance and virulence went together; the more vulnerable microbes, which became predominant as the study progressed, also caused less severe disease...
...first two legs, Crimson captain Koni Ulbrich and Fred Cooley kept even with their two opponents. The third leg saw Bill Zenegraf gain a slight lead on a fresh Pat Taft, enough then to allow Bob Kaufmann to outdistance Ashley Norfleet by one yard...