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Word: circulars (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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Caracas, 300 miles to the east, consumes the oil money with gaudy flamboyance. At night, searchlights turn the circular Hotel Humboldt to a tower of golden glow at the end of its cable car, 4,000 feet above the city on Mount Avila. Inside the red-plush walls of La Belle Epoque restaurant, the oil lawyers and the air-conditioner distributors hoist $2.40 martinis and down $20 dinners. Visiting businessmen snap on black ties and pad down the corridors of the jammed Hotel Tamanaco, bound for nightclubs where sleek performers dance the traditional, twirling, fast-stepping joropo to the sound...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: VENEZUELA: Old Driver, New Road | 2/8/1960 | See Source »

...were unavoidable. Once the original rockets had burned out, there was no power available to correct the orbit. Last week Lockheed Aircraft Corp. announced development of a rocket engine that can fire a second time, enabling ground controllers or an automatic mechanism to kick a straying satellite into a circular orbit by picking the moment to set off the second blast...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Second Push | 2/8/1960 | See Source »

...apogee on the far side of the earth. Left to itself, the satellite would descend again to the low point (perigee) where it first went into orbit. But at apogee the Agena will fire a second time, giving enough additional push to put the satellite on a high, near-circular orbit, and keep it there...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Second Push | 2/8/1960 | See Source »

...issue, TIME reported the reassuring news that the international speed and altitude records had been recaptured from the Soviets by U.S.A.F. pilots flying an F106 and an F-104C. There was a third-the closed circular course speed record-which in terms of military considerations was just as significant as the other...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Feb. 1, 1960 | 2/1/1960 | See Source »

...just finished reading the President's Budget Message on Tuesday when we opened the mail box and took out the mail. There was a letter from Philadelphia, and a circular from Time, Inc., and an invitation to have someone from the Children's Aid Society as our guest for lunch. We had already had lunch, so we couldn't invite the waif to sit down to a square meal with us, but it started us thinking about our mail, and then about the Budget Message, and then about the mail again. Fortunately, we had the New York Times with...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Pomes Penyeach | 1/21/1960 | See Source »

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