Word: featly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Buckley Jr., whose various utterances ooze such venom [Sept. 1]! It is gratifying to note that the United States National Student Association's vice president received such overwhelming support from the association for his attack on the editor of the National Review and that the conservatives' feat of obtaining 15% of votes in a takeover bid still proves that the American student is not taken in by pernicious illusions...
Since Russia achieved the same space feat last February by sending a satellite toward Venus from a similar parking orbit around the earth, U.S. missilemen, still trying to pinpoint last week's Ranger failure, looked for consolation in the near success. At least Ranger's complex instruments were behaving perfectly, and the Atlas-Agena combination had got off to a beautiful start...
...major league baseball's 86-year history, only twelve pitchers had managed to win 300 games, a feat last performed by Lefty Grove in 1941. Fortnight ago Milwaukee's balding, 40-year-old Warren Spahn made it by hurling a tidy six-hitter against the Chicago Cubs, thereby virtually assuring his nomination to baseball's exclusive Hall of Fame. Last week, still improving an indifferent season's record (13 wins, twelve losses), Spahn allowed the Pittsburgh Pirates ten widely scattered hits, won his 301st victory to become the winningest pitcher alive. If Spahn's durable...
...Change. But most U.S. scientists and space experts seemed unsurprised at Russia's feat, and not unduly dismayed. It represented no new breakthrough for Russian rocketry: having lifted Gagarin into single orbit and brought him back, the Russians needed only to use the same booster and capsule for Titov's longer flight. To scientists, the principal interest in Titov's voyage was the question of how he would stand up to the prolonged 25-hour period of weightlessness-the one condition of space travel that had yet to be duplicated, except momentarily, during ground experiments and training...
...Kremlin's firm assurance that "during the 19705 every family, including newlyweds, will have comfortable apartments which will correspond to the demand for a hygienic and cultured life." But to reach even this minimum level, the current rate of Soviet construction would have to be trebled-an improbable feat...