Word: globe
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...they didn't, not in 1962, when John Glenn became the first American "star voyager," the first "free man" to circle the globe in a spacecraft and match the accomplishment of the Soviets, who had done the trick first. It was 17 years before someone succeeded in naming the mysterious qualities that made Glenn and his six fellow Mercury astronauts such compelling figures...
...poll conducted for The Boston Globe last week placed three candidates--David I. Finnegan, Raymond L. Flynn, and Melvin H. King--in a dead heat, and two others--Dennis J. Kearney '72 and Lawrence S. DiCara '71--more than 10 percentage points behind, in the eight person field...
City Councilor Flynn has also shown momentum despite a money shortage so severe that Flynn told the Globe "I have nothing." The Globe reported yesterday that Flynn, who is paying for the education of his six children, was forced to borrow $16,000, halving his net worth...
Those terse words echoed louder in the world's consciousness than the millions of highly emotional ones that came pouring from government offices and the gatherings of ordinary citizens around the globe last week. Many questions about just what happened to Flight 007 remain. But the tape, recorded by the Japan Defense Agency and passed on to the U.S., was damning all the same...
...Washington, D.C., last week from weather satellites drew a rapt audience of oceanographers and meteorologists. Reason: the transmissions showed that a villainous, once-in-a-century temperature rise in the waters of the eastern Pacific Ocean, which scientists blame for a costly year of cockeyed weather around the globe, has finally begun to disappear...