Word: impactions
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...lasting impact of Expo 67," intoned the usually low-keyed Pearson, "will be in the dramatic object lesson we see before our eyes today-that the genius of man knows no national boundaries, but is universal." As he spoke, church bells chimed throughout Montreal, fireboats in the river blasted streams of water into the air, a flight of jet planes screamed overhead, and a fusillade of fireworks splashed in the sky, sending to earth a burst of parachute blossoms that carried the flags of each of the 62 participating nations...
Although Surveyor's mission was generally proceeding according to plan, analysis of its telemetry indicated that it had bounced three times (the first time 35 ft.) after its initial impact on the moon-lifted by its vernier rockets, which had failed to shut down. The unexpectedly rough landing occurred, scientists believed, when the approach radar that controls the rockets became confused by the difference in elevation between the crater bottom and its rim. But the rugged spacecraft quickly proved that it had not been unduly shaken up. Shortly after it landed, it looked down and coolly photographed a nearby...
...Venus 3, which was to parachute a sterilized instrument capsule to the surface of Venus. As a result, they believe, both the capsule and the unsterilized spacecraft hit the Venusian surface. A similar mishap that same year may have caused the unsterilized Russian probe called Zond 2 to impact on the surface of Mars...
...round over their new Doris Day epic, Caprice. Seems that N.C.O.M.P. wanted Fox to slice out a 3½-sec. strip of film showing Shanghai-born Starlet Irene Tsu in a bikini. Well, not exactly in. In this sequence, Irene dives into a swimming pool, and the impact dislodges the bottom half of her bikini somewhat...
...Richard Burack "provides the public with what we've been needing" to crackdown on suspected over-pricing by drug companies. He compared the Handbook to Ralph Nader's Unsafe at Any Speed saying, "It tells a story that may even bemore important and I suspect it will have similar impact...