Word: horizons
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...colors hard to imagine or duplicate because of their wonderful purity. Everywhere the earth is flecked with white clouds. When his capsule swept over the dark side of the earth, the ground was lit only by the feeble glow of the quarter-moon. But he could still see the horizon against the deeper black of the sky, and point his capsule...
...Normally, the automatic control system is supposed to tilt the capsule into the proper position for firing the retro-rockets-the blunt heat shield end of the capsule pointing 34° above the horizon. But Carpenter felt that the automatic system was working badly; he decided to fly the capsule into the correct position by a combination of the manual and fly-by-wire controls...
...flung earth up from the grave of Henry Marshall, the Texas-based U.S. Department of Agriculture official who first started investigating the Billie Sol Estes scandal. Marshall had been declared a suicide, despite evidence that made suicide all but incredible. Now, with the Estes case bursting all over the horizon, he was being exhumed for an autopsy by a five-expert team headed by Houston Pathologist Joseph A. Jachimczyk. The team's finding: "From the reasonable medical probabilities, it was homicide." This was perhaps the understatement of the year. Marshall, 51, was the Agriculture official in charge of cotton...
...Leonard Bernstein, Isaac Stern) who had never been accorded the Legion d'Honneur. As White House Aide Arthur Schlesinger Jr. later told Lyons: "You were to have been invited, but the French ambassador suddenly brought in a long guest list-and it left no room for you." At Horizon House, a five-room cottage for the disabled at New York University's Institute of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation, Joseph P. Kennedy, 73, was coming along fine. "We think he has made real improvement," beamed Director Howard A. Rusk, "especially in the last ten days. He is getting...
...only way to be sure of the accuracy of such perceptions is to interview the poet. In the case of this one, that would be impossible. For the poem, printed in this month's issue of Horizon, is the first tentative work of a sophisticated computing machine...