Word: crash
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...over miles of desert near Albuquerque, shallow disks of special plastic material bake in the sun. Connected by wire to a central laboratory, they are scintillometers set out to watch for enormously powerful cosmic rays that smack into atoms in the high atmosphere and, as a result of the crash, spray the earth's surface with millions of subatomic particles. Despite the minute size of his quarry, Physicist John Linsley of M.I.T., who operates the ray trap, reported a tremendous catch: a shower of 50 billion particles...
...more people whose incomes exceed $1,000,000 a year than at any time since the 1929 stock market crash. So revealed the Internal Revenue Service last week. Its 1960 statistics, the latest compiled, show that 306 Americans had an adjusted gross income of more than $1,000,000 v. 513 in 1929 (and a mere 20 in 1932). The bulk of the wealth is in New York City, which had 87 millionaires-in-one-year; Philadelphia had 59, Chicago 38, and San Francisco and Boston 25 each...
Five years later, Explorer is still orbiting,* still testifying to Pickering's administrative and engineering skill. To some of the men who worked on that dramatic crash program, no other space vehicle will ever hold quite the same allure. At an Explorer anniversary party recently, one of its builders commemorated the occasion with a limerick...
...months since Comedian Ernie Kovacs died in an automobile crash, no one in show business has been busier than his widow Edie Adams. She was left with an enormous, unspecified debt that Ernie owed the Government. Their joint production company also owed the American Broadcasting Company almost $125,000 in unpaid production charges for old Kovacs TV shows. Her pressagent claims that she could have gone into bankruptcy; instead, she went to work. She has done movies, TV appearances, commercials-anything and everything to help pay off the debts that Ernie left behind...
...Arrangement in Grey and Black, No. 1, Portrait of the Painter's Mother) was en route to Atlanta, to appear as an official gesture of sympathy by the French government for the death of 121 Georgians who were killed when a plane chartered by the Atlanta Art Association crashed at Orly Airport near Paris last June. Whistler's Mother's traveling companion was The Penitent St. Mary Magdalen, by the 17th century French painter Georges de La Tour, also lent to Atlanta by the Louvre. The arrival of the paintings in Atlanta was one of the biggest...