Word: jetted
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...economy (average family income: $9,000) also ripples with new muscle-and diversity. The sociology and economy of the whole area have been molded by the aerospace industry, by research into pure science, and by such think factories as RAND Corp. California Institute of Technology's satellite-tracking Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena has become all but synonymous with the race to the moon and deep space probes. Along "science strip," a 130-mile coastal stretch encompassing dozens of laboratories, test ranges and research companies, scientists have become leaders of such communities as Redondo Beach and Santa Monica...
Displaying the precise control of a teen-ager over a spinning Yo-Yo, controllers at Pasadena's Jet Propulsion Laboratory maneuvered Orbiter ever closer to the moon's surface in an attempt to eliminate the fuzziness of its high-resolution camera shots (TIME, Aug. 26). Acting after a suggestion from Eastman Kodak technicians that the camera might begin returning clear pictures of possible astronaut landing sites if it were operated from an altitude of 25 miles, they fired Orbiter's retrorocket for three seconds, reducing the low point of its orbit from 30.4 to 25.1 miles...
...known many Germans, you know how precise and methodical they are . . . Keep this quality in mind just before takeoff on a Lufthansa jet. Think about the irritating German thoroughness of the mechanics who worked on your plane...
...tongue twister says that "a noise annoys an oyster, but a noisy noise annoys an oyster more." Human beings respond in more subjective ways. Living near the end of a jet runway, for example, does not bother airport employees nearly so much as airplane haters, whose complaints about noise rise sharply just after crashes. Typewriters may irritate nearby people, but typists need some clickety-clack for job-satisfaction; using a noiseless machine, says J. B. Priestley, is like "typing on a steak and kidney pudding...
...that. With thunderous cheers chasing her, Barbra tripped backstage to her house-trailer dressing room. There, in a symbolic act, her private hairdresser sheared her customary complicated coif into a modified Mia Farrow cut that Barbra could tend herself. Then she headed home in her chartered Aero Commander jet...