Word: collectively
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Sitting in the University of Cincinnati's Nippert Stadium one June night in 1960, a stocky, crew-cut man gloomily watched a lanky, 6-ft. 5-in. Negro walk up to collect his diploma. The spectator's name was Ed Jucker, and he had just been named Cincinnati's basketball coach. The Negro's name was Oscar Robertson, and he was the best college basketball player of his time. Graduating with "The Big O" were two other starters from a flashy squad that ranked No. 2 in the nation the season before. "I was sick," recalls...
Never before in man's history has he stood nearer his celestial neighbors. Powerful radio telescopes collect emissions from the very lip of infinity. Inquisitive hardware, sent up from earth, skims past the moon, Venus, Mars, the sun. The space sciences, in their long climb from superstition, have developed an impressive and reliable exactitude. Yet for more than 20 million U.S. newspaper readers, the true word from space is handed down daily by a group of occultists turned journalists, who practice a black art older than Babylon...
...instrument will circle the earth aboard an observatory satellite, OSO II, which will collect data on the sun in two ways. First, it will again concentrate on a small dot in the center of the sun. It will also scan the entire disc of the sun in alternating east-to-west and north-to-south directions. Each complete scan will take about four and one-half minutes...
Despite the encouraging opening-night totals, Combined Charities organizers warned against over-confidence. "A lot of people are giving $1 or $5, when they could give at least $10," one officer said. Drive sponsors hope to collect an average of $10 per student...
...average charge of $25 a pint, the blood business is big business, and in most of the U.S. it has always been a bloody mess. In New York City there are 158 hospitals and other outfits-from the altruistic to the crassly commercial -that collect and handle blood with a bewildering variety of methods for typing, preserving and storing...