Word: clearest
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Five times as luminous as a full moon, Ikeya-Seki lived up to its advance billing as one of the brightest comets of the century. Japanese astronomers boast that they snapped the clearest daylight pictures ever taken of a comet. Because of its close brush with the sun, Ikeya-Seki heated to an intensity that was easily recorded in detail by spectrographs, which gave scientists their strongest evidence so far of comet ingredients. Preliminary readings have already detected sodium, ionized calcium, iron, nickel, copper and potassium. Last week James Westfall, a young Caltech scientist, reported that his infrared observations...
...Harlan last week seemed at first to be sympathetic to Ervin's pitch. "An employer has the absolute right to terminate his entire business for any reason he pleases," ruled Harlan. To hold otherwise "would represent such a startling innovation that it should not be entertained without the clearest manifestation of legislative intent or unequivocal judicial precedent...
...sixth was on target, but its TV cameras failed to function. Ranger VII did everything right; its radioed photographs may have told little to amateurs, but they made professionals more familiar than ever with the planet they plan to visit. Then came Ranger VIII, and man got his clearest look yet at his closest planetary neighbor...
Miss Levine has been defeated; not by a fair and honorable vote, but, like mankind's clearest dreams throughout the ages, by the sycophants and martinets who inevitably gravitate into The Establishment. Defeated; not by the honest efforts of her adversaries, not by an honest election, but by the baleful poison of small bureaucratic minds, which crawl and plot at night...
...seem, the day when Red China can stand up to Washington-and to Moscow as well-has now drawn much, much closer. It was Mao Tse-tung, last of the oldtime Communists and master of Red China's 750 million, who had the clearest reason for triumph last week. It was far too early to conclude that Mao had won the struggle with Russia, which reaches beyond ideology into economic and national rivalry and beyond that into the whole question of Communism's future. But as the radiation glow faded in the Sinkiang wastelands, Mao Tse-tung could...