Word: couriers
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...years to the day after the Russians launched their era-opening Sputnik I, a U.S. Army communications satellite, launched from Cape Canaveral with little fanfare, went into orbit and calmly began to receive, store and spew back a stream of voice and Teletype messages sent up from the earth. Courier 1B is a 51-in.. 500-lb. sphere containing 300 lbs. of electronic apparatus. Developed by the Army Signal Corps, its surface is spangled with 19,152 solar cells, which look like bluish safety-razor blades and generate 62 watts when the sun is shining on them. The power...
Editorial Viewpoints. The editorial pages of Southern newspapers reflect near unanimity on at least one point: the religion issue exists and will continue to bulk large in the 1960 campaign. A few papers, such as the Charleston, S.C. News & Courier, argue that Kennedy's Catholicism is a vital and valid political issue. More typical is the Columbus, Miss. Commercial Dispatch: "It is regrettable that what ought to be at most a relatively minor concern is overshadowing such major issues as foreign aid, economic growth and civil rights...
...sibilants resounding across the quiet room. When Root was finished. Bob Gross walked to the blackboard and wrote "Lockheed." General Electric's Ralph Cordiner stood up and said: "Give us the money and stay out of our hair." Everyone else simply nodded. The next day a Marine courier arrived at the Special Projects office in the old Munitions Building and delivered top-secret orders to proceed with the Polaris acceleration...
What bothers Tyler most about the regional ills and national ailments - the Depression, the rise of mass man and the industries that sustain him - is the change they work on the Courier-Freeman. When he first knew the paper, it was a respectable and fairly honest sheet that printed news without fear or favor, as editorials always put it. Then the Courier's owner died, and his nephew was finally forced to sell out to a West Coast moneyman. The paper passed from the control of a publisher who is also a businessman to that of a businessman...
Before long, the Courier merged with its opposition paper, trimmed its payroll, cut down on news, started printing reams of comic strips and syndicated columns...