Word: impactions
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...telescopes cannot tell them whether to expect fluffy dust or jagged rocks, smooth plains or pockmarked lava. Hampered by the turbulence of the earth's atmosphere, they can see nothing that is smaller than one mile across. Ranger VII's cameras, during their last few moments before impact on the moon, did at least 1,000 times better than that. They clearly photographed objects only 3 ft. across...
...Impact. It was triumph enough, but the quavering sound continued. So did the voice on the loudspeaker. "All cameras are functioning. Twenty seconds to impact. We are receiving pictures. Ten seconds to impact." At 6:25:49, the quavering signal abruptly stopped. Ranger had vanished in a puff of moon dust, sending pictures faithfully to the very end. With careful understatement, Dr. William H. Pickering, director of J.P.L., told newsmen: "We had our troubles, but it looks now as if this were a textbook operation...
Deep Discontent. The impact of steadily soaring prices of rice and grain, India's staples, as well as those of vegetables, eggs and cooking oil, is felt hardest by the urban dwellers, who make up 18% of the population. A man and his wife, both employees of the Kerala state government at a combined wage of $84 per month, well above India's average, these days are forced to halve the family's milk consumption, cut out eggs entirely, and stretch the supply of rice by eating it in the form of soupy gruel. A Calcutta schoolteacher...
...Agency for International Development (AID) have begun pilot programs designed to teach farmers better techniques. These programs have increased production dramatically in several small areas, chiefly through the use of fertilizer, improved seed, pesticides, credit and better implements. But it will be years before such programs can have national impact in a country that doggedly resists change. Meanwhile, Delhi leans heavily on purchases of surplus wheat from the U.S., which under the Public Law 480 program, has averaged 300,000 tons per month since...
...appeals court decision was likely to have an impact in many another state, and it was certain to desegregate the jury-picking system all over Georgia, as the state's courts hastened to obey an old mandate freshly spelled out. "It would be prohibitive from a financial standpoint not to," says Judge Nichols. "Their decisions would be reversed, and have to be reheard, every time." That was just what happened in Sumter County, where Civil Rights Worker Ralph Allen will almost certainly be tried again-this time by a legally correct jury...