Word: impactful
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Despite all their wondrous tracking stations, bristling with huge radar antennas and feeding the most advanced electronic computers, America's top military and civilian space scientists could not predict even roughly where Skylab would fall. Until the final hours, they could narrow the area of eventual impact only to a vast global band between 50° north latitude and 50° south latitude?a sweep of about 109 million sq. mi., or nearly 56% of the earth's area. Conceded Hal Sierra, one of the technicians monitoring Skylab's death throes from the Lyndon B. Johnson Space Center near Houston...
...basement party for tenants that would begin two hours before Skylab was expected to break up. Radio stations eagerly joined the hoopla. Ohio's WNCI-FM in Columbus offered $98,000 to the first Ohioan bringing in a locally found piece of the Skylab wreckage within 98 hours of impact. In Atlanta, callers could win yellow T shirts bearing a bull's-eye and the words I'M AN OFFICIAL WQXI-AM 79 SKYLAB TARGET...
...General Alexander Haig, who served as Nixon's last chief of staff and who resigned last week as commander of NATO (see following story). In a June 4, 1973, tape made public by the House Judiciary Committee, he apparently advised Nixon to plead forgetfulness to blunt the impact of a previously released tape on which Nixon approved paying for the silence of the Watergate burglars. Says Haig: "That's exactly right ... You just can't recall. It was in a meeting." Haig now claims that since he had held his job for only one month...
Marinetti, the leader of the futurists, who called himself the "caffeine of Europe," had such an impact in Russia that for decades afterward all advanced or difficult-looking art tended to be lumped, by officials, under the general title of "futurism"; and when Octobrist painters shouted the slogan, "In the name of our tomorrow, let us burn Raphael!" they were adopting Marinetti's febrile rhetoric against the art of the past. In those years, even Marc Chagall was the painter he would never be again: the delight in form rather than nostalgia as the stuff of poetry that pervades...
Cohen noted that the major argument proferred by Red Line Alert-that the original EIS was written before Alewife was designated as a location for the final station-made no major difference on the impact of the extension on the environment, especially considering a further extension to the originally designated Arlington Heights is still likely in the future