Word: horizons
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...young executive in a big, national corporation quickly learns, it is almost impossible to succeed in business without really moving. Companies have found that there is no more challenging way to broaden a promising man's horizon or give him an opportunity to grow. These days, the rate at which they are shuffling their young executives about the country is positively dizzying...
...system will depend on "over-the-horizon" radar, now being perfected, to spot missiles as they leave launch pads in China or Russia, 30 minutes' flight time from the U.S. Once the onrushing rockets are detected, two types of antimissiles will be deployed. One is the long-range Spartan, designed to intercept enemy missiles 400 miles above the earth; the other is the short-range Sprint, whose job is to cope with any missiles that escape Spartan's nuclear net at levels under...
...Williamson has tried all sorts of categories. After arriving in London, he worked with twelve-tone Composer Elisabeth Lutyens, but soon found that discipline "stiff and disagreeable." Now his manner is basically tonal, which, he feels, actually affords the composer a wider horizon of dissonance. In another Williamson work produced at Newport, a nonet for five players and four dancers, long sequences of butter-would-melt tunefulness suddenly gave way to a perky hell-for-leather style reminiscent of Stravinsky's acidulous neoclassicism...
...meteors, stars, planets and the aurora borealis. Only 6% of saucer reports are listed by Blue Book as "unidentified" or unexplained. But Blue Book staffers have often announced arbitrary-and incorrect-solutions to saucer mysteries. Sightings have been attributed to the Orion constellation when it was actually below the horizon and invisible, to advertising blimps or refueling military aircraft when none were in the vicinity. This reinforces the belief of saucer buffs that the Air Force has been guilty of not only negligence but even deliberate suppression of UFO information...
...abandon a foundering spacecraft, the astronaut dons extravehicular activity (EVA) gear, seals himself in the lifeboat and vents carbon dioxide and excess oxygen from his EVA suit to power the craft's attitude-control system. Face pressed against the porthole, he aligns his lifeboat with the horizon by firing the attitude-control jets. After sighting a landmark on earth with the reticle marked on the porthole, he aims and fires the retrorocket for 100 seconds, thus braking the lifeboat to a de-orbiting speed of 16,500 m.p.h. Then the retrorocket is jettisoned...