Word: counts
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...missile. Items: ¶Up from the launch pad at Cape Canaveral and into orbit from the tip of a four-stage Army Juno II rocket curved the 91½-lb. Explorer VII. By far the most sophisticated U.S. satellite, it is crammed with instruments that will chemically identify and count heavy particles of cosmic rays (knowledge that is crucial to manned space flight), study the transfer of heat from tropics to polar regions and from the earth back into space (which is basic to weather forecasting), and carry out other experiments. The satellite is shaped like a gyroscope...
...attempt to soothe man and bird alike, the Navy is creating an airport for albatrosses on the nearby, nonstrategic island of Kure, hopes to build up the small albatross population there (current count: 700). Fortnight ago Navy bulldozers cut a series of 50-ft. swaths through the brush to make special gooney runways. But last week, at the peak of their mating season, the gooneys again defied the U.S. Navy. As ornithologists had predicted, not one winged off to the new, man-made sanctuary...
...Think Twice." Since brevity is not a virtue of the Times's letters-to-the-editor writers, the paper has ruled that 300 words is the maximum printable length-and many aged readers suspiciously count every word, call in to protest the slightest overage. In past years, the morning Times was apt to be careless about punctual deliveries, but oldsters tend to be early risers, and now the paper reaches every subscriber's doorstep before...
...Mirror's Cudlipp, had also written the scathing but ineffective campaign broadside called "The Tory Swindle." And finally, out went a British newspaper institution: a comic-strip character named Jane, who won fame by appearing in the near altogether at any and every opportunity. Jane, by calendar count, should now be about 53 years old, and her lissome virtues have palled on Britain's youth. Installed in her place was a postgraduate nymphet named Patti...
...airlines cannot count on an automatic increase in air travel to fill the new seats. While IATA international air travel has been increasing at a rate of about 15% a year, that is not enough to fill the new jet capacity. The obvious solution is to cut fares to bring air travel within reach of a wider market. The idea has already been tried on the North Atlantic; last year for the first time IATA allowed "economy" fares 20% below tourist rates, and the lines reported a passenger increase of 26.8% for the year...