Word: behinds
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Then, after a terse "Roger" from Borman, all was silent. Apollo would be behind the moon and out of contact for 45 minutes. Until it emerged, no one on earth would know if the SPS engine had fired on schedule (25 minutes after LOS) or fired long enough to place the craft in orbit. Too short a burn, the controllers knew, could send Apollo smashing into the moon. But there was another problem that caused concern on the ground. Apollo's third-stage S-4B rocket, jettisoned shortly after it pushed the spacecraft out of earth orbit and toward...
...Good to hear your voice," said Astronaut Lovell, breaking the long silence after Apollo had emerged from behind the moon. Wild cheering filled the control room. Says Flight Director Glynn Lunney: "It certainly wasn't a faint reaction. There was quite a bit of racket. I'm sure it can be described as one of the happiest Christmas Eves just about anyone there had seen...
...Steel, which in past years often seemed more interested in conserving cash than investing in modernization, has lagged behind some of its competitors in adopting the industry's two major postwar innovations: the basic oxygen process and continuous casting. When Blough took over in 1955, the company had sales of $4.098 billion and earnings of $370 million. Profits reached a record high of $419 million in 1957, but then began dropping off fairly steadily. Last year sales were $4.067 billion and earnings were down to $172.5 million. So far in 1968, the company has increased both sales...
John Ernst Steinbeck always did have a talent for enlargement. Yet when he died of heart disease in Manhattan last week at 66, Steinbeck left behind a body of novels, short stories, plays and film scripts that were less a spawn of the future than a moral-and often moralizing-record from his special compartment in the nation's past...
Urbanity of Psyche. The critical derision that greeted the award from many quarters was rather unjust. When he was asked if he thought that he deserved the honor, Steinbeck replied: "Frankly, no." Yet, as Edmund Wilson observed in an otherwise critical essay: "There remains behind the journalism, the theatricalism and the tricks, a mind which does seem first-rate in its unpanicky scrutiny of life...