Word: atop
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...attempted a huge step toward a distant planet and the interstellar space beyond it last week-but not without some unexpected difficulty. At Florida's Kennedy Space Center, an 1,800-pound spacecraft known as Voyager 2 was launched atop a Titan-Centaur rocket and aimed at Jupiter, 579 million miles and nearly two years away. Voyager 2 was hardly aloft, however, before it reported a malfunction in the boom that carries a key package of TV cameras and scientific instruments...
...scenery," H.L. Mencken once observed, "but there is always the possibility that it may collide with them." In 1976 six people died, and two have been killed so far this year. Minor mishaps usually result merely in awkward landings-in the midst of neighbors' cocktail parties, or atop trees. A balloonist once alighted on the grounds of the Santa Rita county prison in California and was hastily evacuated by officials...
Hard Hit. All three networks were back on the air within six to eleven minutes after they had been blacked out. At CBS and NBC, emergency power systems atop the Empire State Building were quickly activated. ABC, lacking such a system, had to switch its broadcast feed clear across the continent to Los Angeles. The networks were not as successful in letting their viewers know just what had happened. All finally came across with bulletins that broke into their regular programming after...
...unable to build new facilities because of opposition from environmentalists, the company carried nonexistent reserve-generating capacity on its books, and more or less hoped for the best. When Luce took over, two new plants were under construction and plans were under way to develop a hydroelectric facility atop Storm King Mountain on the Hudson River. Though all three projects were supposed to be on line by mid-1972, it took the new chairman nearly a year to realize that the target dates were wildly unrealistic. By then, costs were soaring and the environmental lobby was pummeling the Storm King...
...Atop a bluff ten miles outside Sacramento sits California's opulent new Governor's mansion. When former Governor Ronald Reagan called for its construction a decade ago, he admonished his bureaucracy to design a home that symbolized the bustle and promise of America's fastest-growing state. Completed three years ago, the residence does indeed capture California's quicksilver suburbanty. It has expansive verandas, teakwood floors, eight bathrooms and a caretaker assigned to collect golf balls sliced off the fairway of a nearby country club...