Word: manifolds
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Mariner's mission is manifold. During its journey away from the sun, it will radio back information on radiation, magnetic fields and micrometeorites. If all goes perfectly, it is supposed to, transmit data on the density of the Martian atmosphere that could be invaluable to U.S. scientists who are hoping to land a capsule there by 1969. As a final dividend, it will also try to take 22 still pictures with a television camera during a 30-minute flyby some 8,600 miles from the red planet. The pictures will be transmitted to earth from 150 million miles...
...AFSC supplied all drive solicitors with a statement explaining the facts and I think it is appropriate to state them briefly here. It may be properly said that the AFSC spends all its money to promote peaceful conditions at home and abroad, although the programs are of diverse and manifold direction. In no sense do we concede that our work has "political overtones" as distinct from religious (which this year would have made us ineligible), humanitarian or educational overtones. We do not operate in politics, although, like every other human institution, we operate in the political sphere...
...such acrimony, TV Critic Jack O'Brian, 50, responds with the unruffled self-assurance of a man who has managed to outstay most of his manifold detractors. His column, On the Air, has appeared in Hearst's New York Journal-American for 14 uninterrupted years. "I don't blame the people who hate my guts," says O'Brian. "I do have a capacity to cut very close to the bone, and these people must react. They can't very well blame themselves. So they blame...
...educational value of a theater like the Ex. Gebow and Miss Wilson had to play characters much different from those in Foley's play on almost an identical set, to the same audience, and after only a twenty minute intermission. In the process they gave striking evidence of the manifold means of characterization...
Whether India's new leader or anyone, can cope with the nation's manifold problems at home and its external dangers, especially from Red China, cannot be foreseen. Shastri, at least, can be depended on to expend his life willingly, if necessary. As a top Indian leader said last week, "After Nehru, we had no giant. So we turned to a man more like Gandhi, with the softness of silk and yet the hardness of steel...