Word: feats
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Some anxieties have been dissipated since TIME'S first cover story on space exploration, but the "navigation feat" involved in the Apollo-Soyuz orbital linkup involves a new challenge. As Timothy James, who edited our cover story, puts it: "Apollo-Soyuz is an example of former enemies cooperating to achieve something that could benefit both sides." Indeed, the spectacle of Soviet and American space scientists working in tandem would have astonished our 1952 cover writer who reported that "the cold war has thrown a blackout over all rocket research. Not one man on earth who knows the latest developments...
...positively ostentatious feat of celestial detente, the Americans and Soviets were scheduled this week to unite their Apollo and Soyuz spacecraft 140 miles up in the cosmos. Their photographs looking back will show the eerily beautiful blue and white marbled globe, but the perspective down on earth seemed murky and bitterly troubled...
...canvas might stretch, saying only, "The story will run its course-in time." Then Graham will be off to bigger and better things. Already he's planning a re-enactment of Charles Lindbergh's flight across the Atlantic on the 50th anniversary of that feat in 1977. But that's a mere stunt compared to his ultimate fantasy. "I'd love to do Napoleon's retreat from Russia," he says. "Wouldn't that...
...monotony and the impatience sometimes caused accidents. Carl Gottlieb fell overboard and was nearly decapitated by the boat's propellers. About to duplicate Rizzo's feat-minus the presence of real sharks-Dreyfuss was almost imprisoned in his cage. Wearing a steel-and-leather corset for protection, Shaw spent two days being ingested by Bruce. Roy Scheider took no chances for his own moment of truth, which was to take place in the cabin of the sinking ship. He kept his own hammers and axes close at hand in case the effects men did not move fast enough...
...Cliffe cagers ended their season on a fine note as the women powered their way to the Division Two championship in the Massachusetts Association of Intercollegiate Athletics for Women. In that tourney Radcliffe displayed an awesome scoring feat, downing Emmanual, 79-68, and defeating Tufts...