Word: geared
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...camera with a 9-inch square negative be adopted at a cost of only a few thousand dollars more, but the agency appears satisfied with what one cartographer called "snapshots taken out the window like a tourist." or at least it has not budgeted additional funds for better mapping gear...
...time, she has had to be. Nine days before she was sworn in, the Egyptians, having turned the Suez front opposite Sinai into one vast, armed camp, loosed a thunderous artillery barrage. What Egypt's Gamal Abdel Nasser described as "the war of attrition" went into high gear. Since then the artillery has rarely been silent...
...moral victor was Larry Malo, general manager of Marine Gear Division, who limped home in sixth place on five (out of six) flat tires. If nothing else, his steadfast performance demonstrated the indestructibility of the new machines. Conceived as hybrids of the dune buggy, the snowmobile and the military amphibious carrier, the all-terrain vehicles are 7 ft. long, weigh between 400 Ibs. and 500 Ibs. and cost about $1,500. At least twelve companies are now manufacturing models that run on 7-h.p. to 20-h.p. engines for up to five hours without refueling. They can cruise as fast...
...command from its computer, Mariner 6's electronic gear poured out an endless stream of data from the red planet-information about the density and composition of its atmosphere and its varying surface temperatures. On board the ungainly, 850-lb. ship, whose four solar panels gave it the look of a stubby windmill, tiny transmitters also sent back to earth, some 60 million miles away, the best close-up portrait man has ever had of Mars. At week's end, an identical twin named Mariner 7 moved into position for similar electronic observations. Mariner 6 aimed its close...
Seeking to answer that age-old puzzle, scientists from Caltech's Jet Propulsion Laboratory at Pasadena crammed Mariners 6 and 7 with vastly improved electronic gear, ranging from tape recorders to miniature computers to extraordinarily sensitive infra-red and ultraviolet measuring equipment. The total cost of the Mariners and their launch vehicles: $148 million...