Word: blackout
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...come to a bad end. He staggers off to a plush roadhouse where he is eyed knowingly by the bartender, the pianist, and his waiting chauffeur. He blinks, confused, unable to place faces but sensing in the situation something familiar. The familiar something is, of course, amnesia-the basic blackout of more suspense melodramas than most moviegoers care to remember...
...astronauts were enthralled. "The prettiest part of it all is re-entry," said McDivitt afterward. "We saw pink light coming up around our spacecraft. It got oranger, then redder, then green. It was the most beautiful sight I have ever seen." At 100,000 ft. the blackout ended, and McDivitt's voice came through. "We're five-by-five up here," he said, meaning that he and White felt fine. At 50,000 ft. a drogue chute eight feet in diameter billowed out to stabilize the spinning craft, and at 10,600 ft. the white-and-orange main...
...URUGUAY, that staunch but unstuck little island of welfare-statism, the economy is reeling from the effects of a 26-day blackout of its banking system. The government ordered five banks to close, and all others went out on strike after charges of corruption and fraud against eleven top banking executives. Last week even the Central Bank itself was intervened for investigation. To add to the troubles, the country's cost of living has jumped 45% in the past year, the ruling, nine-man National Council has split into bickering factions, and Communists operating out of the Soviet embassy...
...climbs onto a bridge rail to explain that he doesn't know what he wants, but does know what he doesn't want: a nice home, broadloom rugs, "living the way my parents do." The audience groans. All this has been said, hasn't it? Blackout of communication between parents and youth. Rejection of adult values...
...anxious minutes after voice contact was lost with the Gemini capsule Molly Brown last week, the fate of the largest man-carrying spaceship ever launched by the U.S. worried a waiting nation. But the electronic blackout had been made familiar by earlier space shots. And despite the fact that the capsule dropped into the Atlantic about 60 miles short of its se lected landing spot, Molly's three-orbit cruise, like the moon flight of Ranger IX, was an all-but-perfect mission. By changing their course three times, Astronauts Gus Grissom and John Young demonstrated that U.S. spacemen...