Word: keeps
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...branched in two directions and each branch carried a flat paddle about the size of a checkerboard, covered with 2,000 silicon-based solar cells mounted on a thin plastic honeycomb (an elaboration of the light-collecting window in Vanguard I, which still draws in enough energy to keep the tiny satellite busily broadcasting 17 months after it was launched). At 22,000 m.p.h., the new 142-lb. satellite went into orbit (rotating 171 times a minute), and the cells began to convert sunlight into electricity...
...keep the interior of the paddle-wheel satellite at an even temperature range as it passes from the cool shadow of the earth into the blazing heat of the naked sun, Explorer VI has on its outer skin a patch of black-carbon paint. A thermostat actuates a small shield that alternately covers and uncovers the patch as heat requirements dictate. Since the satellite uses electricity much faster than the paddle wheels can make it signals from the earth periodically shut of the largest of Explorer VI's three radio transmitters. A memory device called Telebit takes over, stores...
...Deutsche mark (24?) entrance fee, each visitor gets a devotional book, a metal lapel badge, and a tiny card that has been touched to the tunic (the garment itself is kept under glass, and most pilgrims get no closer to it than about ten feet). Priests acting as guides keep lines moving by walkie-talkies. Whatever the tunic's real origin, says Trier's Bishop Matthias Wehr, "it has been sanctified by the prayers of centuries...
...Knife, Gary remembers Bing again: "That's the most applause we've had since we told Dad we were leaving home." With a surprisingly pleasant, well-paced melange of songs, soft-shoe dances and slick patter, the Crosby boys manage to suggest that they intend to keep right on working until they have an act worthy of the Crosby name...
...only private, nonsubsidized air fleet in the world, U.S. carriers must find a better way to face competition if the U.S. is to keep its place as a powerful air nation. The most obvious solution would be Government subsidy, but most airlines themselves admit that this is a last resort. What they want is for the U.S. to show a tougher stand in route bargaining and in enforcing current agreements. In the next five years the jets will force a revamping of virtually all of the 54 bilateral agreements between the U.S. and other nations. Unless the U.S. trades much...