Word: barrens
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Cosmodromes on the barren steppes of Kazakhstan trembled with the thunder of departing rockets last week. An unmanned space vehicle named Salyut (Salute) roared off its launch pad and was sent into a near-earth orbit. It was followed four days later by a three-man crew in Soyuz (Union) 10. As many as three additional Soyuz ships were reported poised to join the others in orbit. Ten years after Yuri Gagarin's pioneering flight, the Soviet Union had seemingly begun its most ambitious venture into space: a long-expected attempt to assemble a manned station hi earth orbit...
...Willa Gather what Edmund Wilson once called "two currents of profound feeling-one for the beauty of those lives lived out between the sky and the prairie; the other for the pathos of the human spirit making the effort to send down its roots and to flower in that barren soil." In this book, Stegner rides both currents...
BLACK SPORTS is a 50? monthly dedicated to providing depth and dimension to the coverage of black athletes-"something beyond salary figures and statistics," in the words of Publisher Allan Barren, a bush-bearded black from New Jersey who once ran a computer company. The first issue adds little to the public's considerable knowledge of such obvious star subjects as pro basketball's Lew Alcindor and Oscar Robertson and football's Matt Snell. But Barren hopes to develop other healthy heroes for young blacks, who, he claims, "now identify only with guys on the block, like...
...conditions uncomfortably suggest a typical Indian reservation-isolated, neglected and barren. On cold, windy bay nights the only source of heat is wood planking stripped from the few island structures that have not been destroyed by accidental fires. Most of the toilet plumbing, utilizing sea water, is rusted or jammed and sanitation standards are perilously low. The volunteer nurse has left the island, and the only school has been shut (nearly half of the inhabitants are children under the age of twelve). The island's single truck has broken down...
...missiles and warheads. Pads for testing medium-and intermediate-range missiles have been built at Huhehot, the capital city of Inner Mongolia, and at a new site in the mountains of Manchuria's Kirin Province, from which IRBMs can be fired over a 2,000-mile range to barren Sinkiang Province. But there are no signs that China is even ready to test a full-blown intercontinental ballistic missile, which would have to be lofted over a 6,000-mile range into the Indian Ocean...