Word: lande
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Immigrants: Still the Promised Land" [July 5] fired me up as nothing else I've read in a long time. We can learn something wonderful from these people. When Julius Koco related his escape from Czechoslovakia to Austria and said, "I could have kissed the stones there," I could have kissed...
...that we don't understand Mars at all, or that all the areas of Mars are likely to be bad. But we shall find a place to land, I think...
After ruling this site out, the scientists turned to a third site some 900 miles west-northwest of the original target area. Preliminary radar data suggested that the new landing zone is smoother than the other two, but Viking scientists wanted detailed photographs of the area before making a final decision. To get them, controllers at J.P.L. last week "tweaked" Viking's thrusters to bring the periapsis (low point) of its orbit directly over the new landing site. If the photographs confirm that Chryse Planitia is relatively smooth, Viking will land on July...
Once upon a quite recent time, the staid insurance industry had a Cinderella firm called Government Employees Insurance Co. (GEICO). By charging low premium rates, GEICO skipped past older firms to become the fifth largest auto insurer in the land. Investors from far and wide flocked to buy a piece of GEICO, bidding its stock up to more than $60 a share. Then Cinderella turned into a pumpkin...
...Sopranos. Buffalo Bill is a foolish figure. Called upon to make speeches when, for example, Sitting Bull joins his troupe or President Grover Cleveland visits it, he turns out to be the master of the grandiloquent opening and the bumbling close ("May the sun never set on this great land, unless it comes up again next morning"). He has a letch for operatic sopranos and a strange hatred of birds, and he is comically unsteady on his snow white charger-especially when he tries to make it rear in the grand manner. One suspects Altman has based his Buffalo Bill...