Word: lows
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Spotlight on Snoopy. Then why not go all the way with Apollo 10? George Low, manager of the Apollo spacecraft program, explains that all Apollo systems have not been tested together in the vicinity of the moon. There has been no rendezvous in lunar orbit, no testing of the LM's landing radar or of the entire communications system at lunar distances. In addition, NASA scientists are recalculating trajectories and orbital paths to take into account irregularities in the lunar gravitational field that caused Apollo 8 to stray from its course. "We looked at all these things," says Low...
...woman, both sleek and young, lean against the low expanse of sassy red car that evokes images of unlimited speed. Beneath them a caption blares: "If you haven't got a past yet . . . get a Mach...
...Johnny and a white friend loose in an African and West Indian shadow world full of jouncing characters with cross-rough names: Mr. Peter Pay Paul, Mr. Karl Marx Bo (a future Prime Minister for sure), Mr. Ronson Lighter, and villainous Billy Whispers. The result was British high-low comedy, presented with affection and delight. When he took these people among whites who even then self-consciously affected Spade guests, the satire said everything that could be said about white liberalism. And because Maclnnes abandoned his tape recorder, relying on his ear for syncopation and dislocated verbal wit, the language...
...episode in which a prostitute knelt and screamed cock-a-doodle-doo as she splashed happily in the hot blood of a stranger who had just been ventilated. As for Calamity Jane, Wild Bill's putative paramour, she was once thrown out of a bordello "for being a low influence on the inmates." Money was a more reliable consolation. Apparently, most famous gunfighters, no matter which side of the law they were on, would do almost anything to get it. The James boys and the Younger brothers knocked over banks and trains; the Earps and the Hickoks...
...plan is the faculty response to the demand of a group of first-year students the Law School adopt pass-fail grading. It gives first-year students the option of receiving their grades as pass-fail, high-satisfactory-low-fail, or in the nine categories the School has used for the past year...