Word: hugheses
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Others kept working. Using computers, engineers calculated the rate at which the helium leak would decrease as pressure dropped. At Hughes Aircraft (Surveyor's designer and builder) and at a JPL test site, propulsion experts hurriedly put duplicate vernier engines through tests to determine their performance with low helium...
Finally, Surveyor displayed its pièce de résistance, lowering a goldplated, square "jewel box" to the surface. From six radioactive sources in the box, alpha particles bombarded a small area (4 sq. in.) of the lunar surface. Inside the box, delicate sensors recorded the number and velocities...
FLO HUGHES
To a man, the 22 American observers-ranging in political coloration from liberal Democratic Governors to conservative Republican Senators-reported back to President Johnson that the election victory of Lieut. General Nguyen Van Thieu (see cover story) seemed fair. To be sure, the observers could not be everywhere, and in...
Because of the threat of terrorism, each U.S. observer traveled with his own security guard. They covered the countryside, questioning candidates and citizens, satisfying themselves about the conduct of the campaign. In Binh Thuan province, for example, Whitney Young of the Urban League talked things over with Senatorial Candidate Nguyen...