Word: homering
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Setting out his thesis in the current issue of Astronautics and Aeronautics, Aeronautical Engineer Homer Stewart suggests that the gravity of other planets represents a still-untapped source of energy for long-range space flights. Jupiter's gravity, for example, would exert a tremendous pull on a passing spacecraft, accelerating it greatly and deflecting its course. Thus Jovian gravity could be used, in effect, to gain both thrust and a mid-course correction without the expenditure of fuel. Space scientists, like expert billiard players, can precisely determine the amount of acceleration and degree of deflection by careful control...
...first 45,000 of these sets, and the albums are selling so fast that Victor would do well to look around for more dry goods. The musical part of the package is also pure nostalgia, consisting of several dozen duets, trios and arias sung by Met stars from Louise Homer (in 1905) to Zinka Milanov...
Some critics have added Petrakis' name to the literary tree that bore Homer and Nikos Kazantzakis. That's going out on a limb, perhaps. It is reasonable enough to say that this third novel has the virtues of forthrightness and utter simplicity and shows, at least, how much a little hubris on the author's part can improve an indifferent story...
There's not much to be done about the offensive line. The two top offensive tackles, Homer Ashby and Bob Hausleiter, have been lost for the season, and there are now four sophomores starting in the interior line...
Wyeth's largest retrospective show to date, 223 works, is currently on view in Philadelphia's 161-year-old Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts.* At the opening, he received the academy's gold medal, the 36th winner in the train of artists like Winslow Homer, Whistler and Sargent, recalled: "I was twelve years old when my father first brought me to the academy, and I . . ." Then he could say no more and sat down...