Word: belt
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...University of California, San Diego. If that were so, the two men argue in the latest issue of Science, Mars would show many more craters than it appears to have. Assuming a fairly constant supply of crater-forming asteroids, Mars, which is far closer to the asteroid belt, would have been hit up to 25 times more often than the moon. There would be as many as 220 craters per 1,000,000 sq. km., not the meager 37 that have been observed...
SELMA, Ala.--Reality is kaleidoscopic in the black belt. Now you see it; now you don't. The view is never the same. Climate is an affair of the soul as well as the body: today the sun sears the earth, and a man goes limp in its scorching. Tomorrow and yesterday sullen rain chills bones and floods unpaved streets. Fire and ice... the advantages of both may be obtained with ease in the black belt. Light, dark, white, black: a way of life blurs, and the focus shifts...
When Vice Admiral Charles Martell was assigned to head the Navy's lagging antisubmarine warfare program (ASW) in May 1964, the job looked even less appealing than battleship duty during the early years of the Pacific war-which he already had under his belt. Beset by political bickering, personal rivalries and red tape, ASW resembled a "zany fire department," as one dissatisfied officer...
...holdouts are concentrated in the rural black-belt sections of Louisiana, where only a fourth of the state's districts have qualified, and in North Carolina, South Carolina and Mississippi, where roughly a third have complied. Mississippi's Amite County, for example, is 60% Negro. The residents there spurned more than $50,000 in federal cash, voted to raise their school tax to offset the deficit. "The Nigras," insists School Board Attorney J. D. Gordon Sr., "are well satisfied with their schools." Across town, a member of the leaderless Negro community, Baptist Minister M. D. Smith, agrees: "Everyone...
...space, performing beyond expectations. When equipment unexpectedly conked out, they demonstrated that man has the capacity to become a celestial mechanic. A sighting device went on the blink; Cooper discovered that the trouble was a short circuit, repaired it with a three-inch-long screwdriver. Conrad fixed a pneumatic belt that was wrapped around his thigh in order to stimulate his heartbeat and circulation. Even when necessary components failed beyond repair, the astronauts managed to accomplish many of their assignments. Although a faulty fuel-cell system prevented them from making their planned rendezvous with another object in space, the astronauts...