Word: billiards
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...flights. Jupiter's gravity, for example, would exert a tremendous pull on a passing spacecraft, accelerating it greatly and deflecting its course. Thus Jovian gravity could be used, in effect, to gain both thrust and a mid-course correction without the expenditure of fuel. Space scientists, like expert billiard players, can precisely determine the amount of acceleration and degree of deflection by careful control of both the velocity and course of the spacecraft as it approaches Jupiter...
While the use of the interplanetary billiard technique drastically cuts travel time, Stewart says, it does little to reduce the large amounts of fuel and great initial thrust required to send a spacecraft to the distant planets. But another rapidly developing propulsion system, the solar-powered ion engine, may well solve that problem in time for the flights of the 1970s. Using electricity generated by solar panels, these engines produce a stream of ions (charged atomic particles) that provide a minute amount of thrust - usually measured in hundredths of a pound...
...rarely seen at the "in" Restaurant-of-the-Month, never swings at the Racquet Club in Palm Springs. She doesn't play the tables at Vegas or pick up a cue in the billiard room of the Beverly Hills Daisy; where Frank Sinatra bides his time, she abides not. If she isn't at home, she is likely to be found with her four-year-old daughter at Hamburger Hamlet or at the Los Angeles Zoo or at a local art gallery. Her night on the town is the Bolshoi or a concert at the Hollywood Bowl...
...park. Today, California's Department of Parks is bursting with pride. In less than a decade, the Enchanted Hill has brought in $6,163,182 from tourists eager to pay $2 each for the privilege of being ushered through its vaulted halls, past Roman baths, and into a billiard room hung with a Gobelin tapestry...
Bracelets & Billiards. Meanwhile, in Paris last week, more than 10,000 buyers a day were bustling through the Third Biennial of Antiques. Set off by the Grand Palais' lavish decorations, including 500 trees and an artificial lake with swans, more than $10 million worth of objets d'art were on sale. Rarities included the child-sized billiard table given to King Louis XIV when he was twelve years old, and an art nouveau serpentine bracelet designed for Sarah Bernhardt...