Word: dusts
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Good Hope, its perigee a narrow 157 miles over Singapore. With so great a range of altitude, it will pierce both of the newly discovered Van Allen radiation belts (TIME. May 12, 1958 et seq.), collect comprehensive data on phenomena ranging from the earth's ionosphere to cosmic dust...
Ears & Eyes. Another possible hazard for space travelers is cosmic dust-micro-meteorites. Behind metal plates on the sides of Explorer VI, microphones listen for micrometeoric impacts, register their intensity and frequency. The problem of communication with future space probes or space argonauts is complicated by the fact that radio waves are distorted and deflected when they penetrate the shell of the ionosphere. The satellite carries equipment to study their behavior...
This frankly quantitative approach to riding is paying off handsomely this season for Robert Nelson ("Okie") Ussery, 23, who has risen from a dust-eater generally back in the pack of national rankings, as tabulated by the fact-finding Morning Telegraph, until he stands second only to the great Willie Shoemaker in booting home winners (224 v. 221) and total purses ($1,863,049 v. $1,128,474). It matters little to Ussery that he has had to ride 143 more races than Shoemaker to get his total, or that he has never won a major stakes event...
...fashion in children's names: and many youngsters believed in Peter's magic so thoroughly that they broke limbs while attempting to fly like him. (In case you are concerned about the latter, Sir James soon announced that one had to have Peter's particular brand of fairy dust in order...
...proletarian best. In the mining town of Katowice he proudly proclaimed: "I used to work as a miner myself." insisted that no smell was more "dear to my heart" than the smell of coal dust. He felt so confident, in fact, that at one point he dared to strike a particularly sensitive spot. "Your priests," he said, "promise you happiness in heaven. We will offer you happiness here on earth. Those black-robed beggars don't want to work for it." Only when he followed up by asking whether everyone was happy was he made aware of the deadly...