Word: disasterous
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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The spacecraft's 65-hour trip began well. Blasting off from Cape Kennedy, Surveyor was aimed so precisely that without correction it could have hit the moon within 26 miles of its intended landing site-one of the most accurate launches achieved by the U.S. space program. But controllers...
Sir: What bitter tea it is to read that "two-way radio" [Aug. 25] has been "lifted" from its "ham" stage, .to its role as "key instrument in a mushrooming minute-man-like communications network!" TIME must know that since the 1920s the ham operator has provided emergency communications worldwide...
Flaring through parched timberland in the drought-stricken Pacific Northwest last week, the worst forest fires in more than half a century defied efforts to contain them. So far this year, some 1,800 fires have destroyed more than 105,000 acres of timber in Montana, Idaho, Oregon and Washington...
Dwindling Market. "A common mistake many young writers make," says Emily Jacobson, a Manhattan-based writers' agent, "is to leave their institutional connections, flushed with success. But with the arduous apprenticeship and the pressure riding on every word, it's often a total disaster."
ITT flourished over the next few years, its worldwide assets mushrooming from Behn's original investment of $3,400,000 to $588 million by 1930. Over the years, the company provided South America with an early radio telephone link with Europe and North America, brought nationwide telephone dialing systems...