Word: arduously
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...spacewalk difficulties encountered by Gordon-and by Cernan before him-have had a restraining effect on NASA officials. Last week, anxious that nothing go wrong on the final Gemini flight, they canceled the entire AMU experiment and began planning a simpler and less arduous space walk that will give Aldrin a better chance of making out with...
...Ambassador Henry Cabot Lodge, who greeted him fulsomely as the results became clear. Fully 80.8% of the nation's 5,290,000 registered voters went to the polls-many more than the scant 50% that U.S. observers had cautiously predicted. It was a beginning in the slow, arduous process of building a democracy in a nation racked...
...physical strength a man peaks at 21 and plateaus to the late 60s, the period when degenerative diseases stalk. The arduous training program of the astronauts, five of whom are over 40 (Walter Schirra, Alan Shepard, Donald Slayton, Scott Carpenter, Virgil Grissom), has proved that a man can double his normal physical competence at ages much beyond 21. Any middle-ager's physiological potential is probably as unique as his fingerprints. The hair may grow thinner, but the capacity for mental growth is unimpaired in middle age. It is obvious that a man or woman of 40 can understand...
After such arduous tasks, the King repairs to his equally strenuous hobbies. Not long ago he built a 13-ft. sailboat and sailed it across the Gulf of Siam, a 16-hour crossing. He was accompanied by a small flotilla escort of the Royal Thai Navy, and a motorboat using a new design of jet propulsion that Bhumibol himself had conceived. His current project: a do-it-yourself helicopter (see MODERN LIVING). Last week, as the King and Queen were enjoying the first of the monsoon rains, breaking the most torrid weather in years, news of the discovery...
...northern port, but the ship's 20-hour run also eliminates 800 miles of driving to get to the panhandle of Alaska. In fact, by continuing northward from Prince Rupert on the three-year-old Alaska Ferry Service, the motorist can escape all but 600 miles of the arduous 2,200-mile drive from the Washington State border to Fairbanks...