Word: ahead
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...exotic cargo aboard the Atlas are two recorder-transmitters. Carried in a special pod on the rocket's side, the instruments weigh an estimated 100 lbs. each, are capable of receiving, recording, and rebroadcasting messages on signal from the ground. President Eisenhower's voice, recorded on tape ahead of time, was sent up in the instrument package. After the Atlas made twelve trips around the earth, a radio station at Cape Canaveral gave it a coded signal that triggered one of its transmitters. Down from space came the President's message, scratchy but intelligible...
...experiment proved that men on earth will be able to talk to men in space vehicles of the future. Looking confidently ahead, Defense officials declare that even this huge achievement is "as primitive as a baby's first words." Future satellites will be able to carry far more intricate electronic gear, may provide many circuits for telephone and even television transmissions around the shrinking world...
...evolutionary theory, the universe should contain an unchanging amount of material. Consequently, it must be thinning out as it grows older and its galaxies fly farther and farther apart. The steady state universe will not thin out. Ten billion years ahead, it should look much as it does now. with galaxies sprinkled sparsely through space at the same average density...
...consider the current Montreal team the greatest ever in hockey, superior to the Boston Bruins of the '30s or the Detroit Red Wings, who won seven straight championships in the late '40s and early '50s. Last week Les Canadiens won three straight to pull far ahead of the second-place Red Wings...
High Proof. In San Bruno, Calif., police patrols stopped hundreds of cars to check drivers for intoxication, landed nary a drinker, found down the road a homemade sign reading: "Roadblock ahead. Lushes turn right...