Word: boxful
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...death toll was largely attributable to the technology of mid-century America. Thanks to a covey of "Hurricane Hunter" aircraft and a hat-box-shaped, 320-lb. weather satellite called Essa (for the Commerce Department's Environmental Science Services Administration), Beulah's every move was tracked and reported round the clock by radio, thus permitting more than 150,000 Texans to dodge the big storm's flailing fist. Watching from a polar orbit 865 miles above the earth, Essa's twin TV cameras gave the Texas Gulf Coast twelve days' advance warning on her course...
...signs came. The mercurial Rumanians, whose Latin origins may have instilled a certain coolness toward Slav ic influences, swept the box office clean of tickets for the Californians' two concerts. The black market became so brisk that scalpers were buying from each other, and at one concert, 600 crashers forced their way in. The next night the Russians played; there were enough empty spaces in the hall to drive a tractor around in, and the crowd dwindled further at intermission. It wasn't that Conductor Kiril Kondrashin had given a poor concert; it was just that the exuberance...
...Bobby and Ethel Kennedy have all those kids of their own, and-well, it was worth a try, anyway. So Army Specialists 4/C Michael Garrity and Thomas Mooney sent a wistful note to the Senator: "Can Ethel make cookies?" Bango! Back across the Pacific came an enormous box of cookies. Bingo! Off went another note, this time to the White House: "Can Lady Bird make cookies?" They're waiting, and so's the whole 269th Combat Aviation Battalion...
...influential Detroit Athletic Club when he revealed that it was at tempting to have an adjacent city street closed for use as a parking lot. The club, which lists Gordon as a member, was forced to buy the property. Then he disclosed a ticket-scalping ring made up of box-office employees at Tiger Stadium. Detroit Tigers Owner Harvey Hansen demanded the names of the scalpers, but Gordon snapped, "That isn't my job." He told Hansen to find the culprits himself...
Finally, Surveyor displayed its pièce de résistance, lowering a goldplated, square "jewel box" to the surface. From six radioactive sources in the box, alpha particles bombarded a small area (4 sq. in.) of the lunar surface. Inside the box, delicate sensors recorded the number and velocities of alpha particles rebounding from the surface material and relayed them to earth via Surveyor's radio. By analyzing the pattern of the rebound particles, scientists hope to be able definitely to identify compounds and elements in the lunar soil. "If the experiment succeeds, it will mark the first...