Word: exacts
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...that had postponed the flight for two days. Fuel cells running low on fuel, liquid hydrogen boiling uselessly away, telemetering equipment turned suddenly unreliable, fire near the launch pad, thunderstorms aloft−all seemed problems of the past. Now everything was going well; Gemini's orbit was incredibly exact. "Everything is fine," reported Command Pilot Gordon Cooper. "You are go! You are go!" exulted Astronaut Jim McDivitt, capsule communicator in the Mission Control Center near Houston...
Depths & Heights. Pop Artist Andy Warhol is the man who sells exact-to-the-copyright reproductions of Brillo boxes for $1,000, lines his studio with aluminum wrap, paints his hair silver, and devotes eight hours of "underground movies" to such hitherto unexplored subjects as the depths of man's sleep or the height of the Empire State Building. Edie Sedgwick is his constant companion, an electric elf whose flashing chocolate-colored eyes and skittish psyche make her a perfect star for his slow-moving movies...
...Step. Some of the reasons are already clear. The Government takes a business census only once every five years; Congress keeps federal statisticians too starved for funds to make it more often. In a rapidly changing economy, five years is just too long for exact tracking. Important in the current revision are better statistics supplied by the new input-output study of what various industries sell to each other (TIME, Nov. 20) and fresh concepts of what should be included in the gross national product. The $1.2 billion a year paid in real estate commissions, for example, was reclassified from...
...only did the trouble-plagued Pratt & Whitney hydrogen engines take full charge in flight, but the guidance for the General Dynamics rocket sys tem checked out perfectly. Centaur soared into an orbit that was so exact that had Surveyor carried the proper equipment, it could have made a slight mid-course correction and been on its way to the moon...
Though they have long held out against it, the unions may come around to reducing crews. They intend, however, to exact a good price for any concession: increased pensions of up to $450 a month for displaced crew members. Shipping companies fear that such increases would bankrupt them unless the Government simultaneously increases its subsidies, are so distressed by union demands that they would almost welcome compulsory arbitration. They have other reasons for being distressed: 10% of the business that goes to foreign lines during a U.S. maritime strike never returns, and this time the American Marine Institute estimates that...