Word: impactions
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...book until after this November's 50thanniversary celebration of the Bolshevik Revolution. By circulating a copy of the manuscript that Svetlana left behind with friends last year when she went to India, they hoped to force premature publication of the book in the West, thus diluting its impact before the November festivities...
...their scenes, their voices are broadcast in a strong whisper over loudspeakers. In the first and third, they are not visible at all; and in the second they are represented by vaguely moving black shapes scarcely perceptible on the almost totally dark stage. This approach serves to increase the impact of the Witches as pervasive and ubiquitous symbols of evil. Only one of the voices is that of a witch, however; the other two are those of war-locks, since Houseman uses men's voices...
...Surveyor 4 was designed to test the extent to which material in the moon's crust may be attracted by a magnet. In turn, this information might have yielded new clues as to whether the moon's surface features were formed by volcanic activity or by the impact of meteors...
...seconds before Surveyor 4's retrorocket was scheduled to stop firing 40,000 ft. above the moon as all radio contact ended. The best guess at J.P.L. is that the retrorocket exploded, blasting the craft to bits. Whether that actually happened, or whether Surveyor 4 disintegrated on impact, is a mystery that may never be solved-unless astronauts some day hike to the target site and examine the wreckage...
...What impact a new set of rate reductions will have on A.T. & T.'s revenues is hard to say. In 1965, when the company agreed with the FCC on a $100 million rate reduction, it was passed along to the consumer in the form of cheaper rates for three-minute long-distance calls during special hours. That led to a spectacular surge in traffic, and in profits. But that was in a year of spectacular consumer spending. Whether a new rate cut will produce the same results in 1967 is far from certain...