Word: leonide
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Premier Kosygin was flying to a cool reception in Turkey, all the adulation at home seemed to be going to his comrade, Party Boss Leonid Brezhnev. Ever since they toppled Nikita Khrushchev from power two years ago, Soviet leaders have rhapsodized about the virtues of "collective leadership" and ranted against Nikita's "cult of personality." Last week on the occasion of his 60th birthday, Brezhnev was made a Hero of the Soviet Union. In a rare event, his leonine likeness stared enigmatically from Pravda and special editions of the other Moscow newspapers. Was Brezhnev actually fostering his own little...
...danger in launching a trial bal loon is that the balloonist may get caught up in the mooring cables and carried aloft. Just that sort of aerial accident befell Russia's Leonid Brezhnev and his Bulgarian allies last week...
Encouraged by optimistic astronomical forecasts that suggested the annual Leonid meteor shower might well be more dramatic than usual (TIME, Nov. 18), a team of University of Arizona students ascended nearby Kitt Peak to observe the spectacle, What they saw exceeded their wildest expectations...
...East Coast and completely obscured the view of crowds gathered for the occasion in Manhattan's Central Park. Astronomers on a plane circling above the weather off Nantucket Island reported only about 20 meteor sightings in an hour. They missed the celestial show of a lifetime. Another spectacular Leonid shower is not expected again until...
Comet Composition. During the shower, the Air Force will launch an Aerobee rocket equipped with a "Venus Flytrap" nose cone. While the rocket is rising to a peak altitude of 117 miles, four arms will extend out of the nose cone to catch the Leonid meteoroids, entering the earth's atmosphere at a speed of 162,000 m.p.h.; then the arms fold into the nose cone, which will fall back to earth carrying specimens that will help scientists determine the composition of the comet...