Word: iii
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...since last October, when they launched the 4,037-lb. Lunik III, have the Soviets orbited a satellite. A fortnight ago Sputnik III tumbled back into Earth's atmosphere and burned up, so the box score on satellites still transmitting stood at U.S. six, U.S.S.R. zero. It was doubtful that, in the Kremlin, anybody was telling any new jokes about space...
...situation is critical. Japanese industrialists have developed the Hicoupet Mark III sports car. U.S. price: $49.95. Obviously, Detroit will soon be just a swallowed Miltown. The hero pulls his thumb out of his mouth, strips to his Bermuda shorts, and shouts: "This is a job for Business Man!" He is, of course, "faster than a speeding ticker tape, more powerful than a goon squad, able to leap loopholes in a single bound." He does all this on the stage of a Chicago coffeehouse-nightclub called the Second City...
...former Prime Minister Lord Oxford and Asquith, who lost to a relatively unknown opponent, had taken his defeat hard in 1925. In order to find a precedent for a Prime Minister's seeking the job while in office, historians had to go all the way back to George III's hapless Lord North, whose other distinction was to lose the American colonies...
...fall months, Ray Soifer was kept busy by his studies at M.I.T., had time for his ham equipment only on occasional weekends back home in Manhattan. But late in January Ray came home for a week's vacation. On Feb. 6, two satellites, Explorer VII and Sputnik III, were scheduled to come into range about 1 a.m. He got in touch with Perry, and the two boys tried again. At 12:55 a.m., Soifer transmitted a prearranged code with about 300 watts of power on 21.011 megacycles. After 20 seconds he stopped and listened while Klein transmitted...
Married. Jenny Ann Lindstrom, 21, pink-cheeked, blue-eyed daughter of Ingrid Bergman and her first husband, Dr. Peter Lindstrom; and Fuller Earle Callaway III, 28, scion of a Georgia textile family; she for the first time, he for the second; on the spur of the moment, before a justice of the peace at Elko...