Word: angularities
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...stars, a photocell reports the star's position to a computer. When three bright stars have been reported, the computer measures the angles between them and compares them with known angles stored in its memory. No two groups of three stars have exactly the same angular arrangement, but if the computer picks up one group that might possibly be mistaken for another, it observes a fourth star and uses it to remove all uncertainty. When the computer has decided firmly what stars the mirror was looking at, it tells the spacecraft how it is heading...
Some of Detroit's 1964 offerings will be changed simply because their styling has been around too long. The four-year-old Falcon will lose its rounded look for more angular lines, and the Comet will look sleeker and longer. The plump Thunderbird will be completely restyled to give it le .n-looking body lines. The Rambler American will grow four inches, look more like the larger Rambler models. Chrysler's Imperial will resemble the Lincoln Continental-and Detroit is hardly surprised. After all, new Chrysler Stylist Elwood Engel came from Ford, where he was largely responsible...
...mystery of Christ's sacrifice is sung to diminishing candlelight, until at last only one candle remains-the Light of the World. The colors of the music suggest the gathering shadows, and Poulenc gives it a timeless serenity by weaving into it ancient liturgical forms along with angular modern music...
...Propulsion Laboratory. Almost as if they could see it all happening, they squinted into 36 million miles of space, out into the vicinity of Venus, where for the first time in history a man-made space traveler was cruising into range. A gold and gleaming machine, sporting angular purple wings and unblinking electronic eyes, was swooping toward its target. Mariner II was giving earthbound scientists their first close look at the distant planet that has tugged so long at their adventurous imagination. And when Mariner's radioed reports were finally decoded by the JPL crew that had built...
Leinsdorf uses no baton and conducts with a stiff and angular style. His dress coat reaches nearly to his ankles, and from the audience he looks like an aging seaman sending semaphore signals to some distant ship. The Boston has the longest season of all (50 weeks), including Tanglewood in the summer and-for the 92 members willing to play Viennese waltzes and champagne music-a stint with Arthur Fiedler's Boston Pops...