Word: steering
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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...Warned the West to keep "hands off the Republic of the Congo." What the U.S. had done to provoke this outburst was steer through the United Nations Security Council a resolution to send to the Congo-at the urgent request of the Congolese government-a U.N. police force to help restore order; the U.S.also planned to send planeloads of food for both Congolese and terrified Belgians (see FOREIGN NEWS...
...Grand Panjandrum of inertial guidance. Early in World War II, Draper became convinced that bombsights could be made enormously more accurate by stabilizing them with improved gyroscopes. When long-range missiles came into the picture after the war, Draper and his M.I.T. group began developing gyroscopic instruments to steer the rockets through...
...young (Washington's suburban Montgomery County, Md.-pop. 358,000 -spends about $34 million a year on youth programs). The suburban housewife might well be a can-opener cook, but she must have an appointment book and a driver's license and must be able to steer a menagerie of leggy youngsters through the streets with the coolness of a driver at the Sebring trials; the suburban sprawl and the near absence of public transportation generally mean that any destination is just beyond sensible walking distance. Most children gauge walking distance at two blocks. If the theory...
...institution in fierce academic competition with all the others. The result is to encourage a flood of multiple applications from youngsters who cannot be sure which campus considers them suitable. Though high school guidance is improving, the pressure is rising so fast that even . the most fastidious counselor must steer youngsters to more and more colleges, hoping to get them in somewhere. In turn, colleges grow less sure of which students will accept them: many a small college begins the annual mating season with a deluge of applications, and winds up short of freshmen...
...American Ambassador Lodge-in two weak statements defending free speech and free observation flights anywhere-tried to steer the Council toward the aggressive threats and actions of Russia. He did not make telling points. In sum, Soviet Russia appears to have found some legality, not only to embarrass the United States, but to stress to the United Nations that if international law is to be rewrit ten here, the U.N.. too, could fade out ingloriously...