Word: eights
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...engineering, mathematics or physics. Though their average age is only 32, many have been with the program since the space program's first flights began with Project Mercury in 1959. They form four teams-labeled green, white, black and maroon-that serve around the clock in overlapping eight-hour shifts...
Beyond Houston, the communications web stretches around the earth-and above it. Key parts of the network are the huge radiotelescope dishes at Goldstone, Calif., Madrid, Spain, and Canberra, Australia, 17 ground stations, four U.S. Navy ships scattered over the seas and eight communications planes-all receiving and transmitting vital bits of data throughout the mission. No one is more aware than the astronauts themselves of how impossible a flight would be without such support...
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...group presented Acting City Clerk Paul Healy with a stack of 1776 petition sheets calling for a November vote on their rent control ordinance, which would roll back rents to January 1968 levels and allow eight per cent yearly increases on the approval of a rent control board. They claimed to have signatures of over 9000 Cambridge voters on the petitions...
...petitions were sent to the City's board of Election Commissioners; which must now check them to see if they contain the approximately 3297 valid signatures (eight per cent of Cambridge's 41,213 registered voters) needed to put the measure on the ballot. If the petitions contain more than the required number of signatures, the city council then has 20 days to pass the ordinance without amendment, or it will be put to the voters in November...