Word: tasks
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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...scientist's sternest task is to admit the inevitable, and in space travel the unhappy inevitable may be that man can never journey "safely" to the moon and planets. But scientists are making plans just the same. The huge, multistage rocket with which Russia launched its Dognik could boost a 600-lb. capsule into orbit around the moon, and the size of the capsule can be increased by 100 Ibs. for each additional 20,000 Ibs. of thrust that Soviet scientists can coax from the boost er. Says a U.S. engineer: "The Russians probably could soft-land an instrument...
Winning with ease. Levittown made the finals last week and faced the sobering task of playing a Fort Worth team that was the most solemn and mature club in the tournament. The prospect gave Levittown a bundle of laughs. During batting practice. Third Baseman Julie Kalkstein grabbed the microphone of the public-address system and rattled off a series of gags about the efforts of his buddies...
...nonpolitical" speaking engagements-three in one day (Sept. 26) in Philadelphia and Manhattan, one in Detroit (Oct. 17)-and two televised political speeches, one on election eve. Ike's campaign schedule is far from firm, but his strategic approach has already been settled on. His No. 1 campaign task: wooing the independents whose help Nixon needs most. Even in avowedly political speeches, the White House indicated, Ike would not attack Democrats in general. "New Dea: Democrats" or "spending Democrats" (both bad) would be contrasted with "discerning Democrats" (who might be won to Nixon...
Nothing ever works quite the way it should in Indonesia. Scarcely had the red and white flags been put up to celebrate the nation's 15th independence day last week when workmen were back in the streets of Djakarta. Their task: to take down 12-ft.-high poster portraits of Guinea's President Sekou Toure and Egypt's Vice President Abdel Hakim Amer, both of whom had reneged, without notice, on promises to put in an appearance at the independence-day festivities...
Election Year Caution. What the interplay of indicators-classical or makeshift-can never capture is the mood of the U.S. economy, which motivates most business decisions. Last week that mood was outspokenly cautious. The U.S. economy is temporarily without its most historic feature: momentum. This made the task of the indicator readers difficult and frustrating, but some put it all down to the fact that summer is typically the slack season for business expansion, and that U.S. businessmen are traditionally hesitant about making business decisions in an election year. As a so-so third quarter draws toward a close, most...