Word: instruments
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...advertisement in the February issue of The Diapason, an organ fanciers' monthly, said that the 35-year-old instrument is in good condition, but needs "releathering...
...developed during the flights of Gemini 6 and 7: rendezvous in space. And the well-managed U.S. Apollo program is making such rapid headway that space officials still hope to land Americans on the moon before 1969. Quite possibly, they will try the trick even before their instrument-carrying Surveyor is able to carry out its mission successfully. Neither contestant is yet an odds-on favorite in the lunar sweepstakes...
...Secretary of Agriculture in 1963 when U.S. farmers overwhelmingly rejected his wheat program. Since then, in one of the Cabinet's toughest jobs, Freeman has steered a four-year farm bill through Congress, reduced agricultural surpluses by nearly a third, helped to make American food production a key instrument of foreign policy. He now stands at the peak of his popularity with farmers...
...John Hersey's Hiroshima are numbered among the creditable jobs of journalism that antedate Capote's esthetic experiment. Not to forget that old master, Ernest Hemingway, who did a lot of reporting in his day, but bemoaned the fact that for a novelist "it blunts the instrument you work with." But however Capote wishes to define it, In Cold Blood drains an event of its content as few events have ever been emptied before...
...cost curve of such a large telescope as a function of its possible size and performance. The 140-foot steerable telescope at the National Radio Astronomy Observatory in Greenbank, W. Va., the largest in the country, cost over $10 million. Co-chairman Purcell estimated that the 300-500 foot instrument would cost a few times that amount...