Word: aloftness
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...Apollo moon landing. In the 1970s the country will spend almost the same amount ($34.1 billion), overwhelming proof that Goddard's dream still has considerable thrust. Two Viking probes are en route to Mars, a Venus probe is scheduled for 1978, and a reusable space shuttle will go aloft the following year...
...Fearful Aloft. Wallace insists that 1976 will be his last campaign. "For one thing," he explains, "I'm tired of flying through thunderstorms." He has leased a $47,000-a-month BAC 1-11 (it has been named Trust the People) that transports 23 people in oil-baron style. But Wallace is still fearful aloft. Nor, at 56, can he count on his health holding up for another campaign (see MEDICINE). If he is denied the Democratic nomination-a virtual certainty-he is not sure what he will do. Though splinter groups want to run him on a third...
When all the flight was safely aloft, the 1,047-ft. Kennedy got ready to position herself for the landing operation - "to seek the wind," in the Navy's phrase. All was well. There was nothing difficult about the maneuver; it had been performed thousands of times by units of the U.S. Sixth Fleet in the Mediterranean. The job of the six much smaller ships shepherding the Kennedy was to change position to accomodate the movements of the attack carrier. The Kennedy radioed her planned change of course to the U.S.S. Belknap, a 7,930-ton guided-missile cruiser...
...College dining room on that evening last year is difficult to say with any certainly, partly because virtually all of the witnesses perceived the event with the assistance of psychedelic drugs. A few things are clear: that Yo Mo Dobro Jo was borne in upon a toilet seat clutching aloft in his right hand a dildo, and in his left some other spiritual object; that beer and spumoni were served, as symbols of the blood and body of the guest of honor; that after the intonation of some godly words, symbolic meatballs were cut away from a jockstrap and eaten...
...that seemed to go "as smooth as a peeled egg." The Kremlin promptly hailed the joint mission with yet another barrage of pronouncements. Exulted Izvestia: SUCCESS IN OUTER SPACE FOR PEACE. The Russians had more reason to crow. At week's end the two cosmonauts who had been aloft in a Salyut space station all through the Apollo-Soyuz mission returned safely to earth after 63 days in space, a Soviet record...