Word: horizons
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...their present homestand the Bulldogs set a League record for points scored. That was against Cornell and Dartmouth, which have two of the best defenses in the Ivies. Penn has the worst. The temptation, therefore, is to predict an 83-1 margin; but with Princeton and Harvard on the horizon Coach Carm Cozza will probably rest Don Barrows and Brian Dowling most of the game and settle for a 38-7 score...
McNamara did his best to minimize the impact of his disclosure. He argued that FOBS is considerably less accurate than ICBMs, which was the primary factor in the U.S. decision against building its own FOBS several years ago. Further, he said, the U.S. has developed an over-the-horizon radar capable of tracking a missile from the moment of blast-off at Russia's Tyuratam ICBM complex; the new radar will be fully operational in February and will give Washington 30 minutes' warning of a potential attack. The new three-stage Spartan anti-ballistic missile will also increase...
...apart. When it was high in the sky, the sun would appear as a familiar disk-if it could be seen through the murky Venusian clouds. But as it set, according to Stanford University Engineer and Physicist Von R. Eshleman, the disk would gradually diffuse itself around the entire horizon as a glowing band for the remainder of the night; sunlight is so bent, or refracted, by the dense atmosphere that it circles around to the dark side of the planet. At dawn, nearly two earth months later, the band would reassemble into a disk that would then slowly rise...
View from a Bowl. The high refractivity of the Venusian atmosphere could have other bizarre effects. Looking toward the horizon with a powerful enough telescope, the visitor might be able to see the back of his own head. And wherever he was, he would appear to be standing in the center of a depression, or bowl, looking up toward the horizon. Concluded Eshleman: "We can now say that Venus is not only hell, but a hellhole...
...from an improvised candle with a rag as a wick. There are no connecting trenches; the leathernecks, some of them raw teenagers, must move at a run from bunker to bunker. Where once a crude French fortress stood, not a single building or even a tent breaks the bleak horizon. Often the only signs of life are a horde of bold rats and a few cats. "The men think they keep the rats down," grumbled one officer. "I suspect they share the garbage...