Word: layering
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...climbed for 102 miles before blossoming, folded its petals only after it dropped within 65 miles of the earth's surface. When it finally landed, Physicist Robert K. Soberman of the Air Force Cambridge Research Laboratory hoped to find a few micrometeor punctures in the three-layer sandwich of thin Mylar film and Plexiglas that lined the Aerobee's dust catchers. What he actually found was something quite different: during each second of exposure, some ten meteorites had hit each square centimeter. Most of the holes were microscopic, but a few could be spotted with the naked...
...dust layer of such density has ever before been observed in space, and Dr. Soberman cannot yet explain his rocket's rich catch. One possible theory is that micrometeorites may have electric charges of the same sign-either positive or negative-when they arrive from space. The charge may accumulate near the top of the atmosphere, slow down later-arriving particles by electrostatic repulsion and make them linger there...
...hordes of "wedding-industry" salesmen by placing all their arrangements in the hands of a "marriage coordinator," such as Mrs. Gertrude Doran, 54, of Los Angeles. This year Mrs. Doran ("I can do as many as four weddings a day") is pushing two new gimmicks for her clients: a layer of frozen wedding cake for presentation to the bride and groom as a first-wedding-anniversary present, and a tape-recorded You Are There commentary by a mellifluous announcer who describes the garb, step, and emotional tone of the whole wedding party. Mrs. Doran advises parents to keep the recording...
Fancier Than Scarlett's. To go with the smashable fashions are numerous accessories, the newest and most practical using something called Curon, a thin, transparent, foam-plastic layer that is laminated to wool or worsted jersey as an interlining. Also among space-saving accessories: smashable turbans, many studded with creaseproof beads and fringe; wash-and-wear embroidered lingerie, fancier by far than Scarlett's; Italian nylon drip-dry raincoats, which actually may be more wrinkle than rainproof; tiny, collapsible umbrellas that look like pistols and shoot up almost as quickly...
...January 1959 workmen began laying the foundation stones, at first without mortar, to test their fit to the new site. After corrections for the contours of the old site and for the distortions caused by centuries of settling, the walls slowly rose, set this time in a thin layer of mortar. When they reached the high narrow windows, everything fitted perfectly...