Word: meters
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Congress had approved the program, undergraduate volunteers would have assisted Chaisson in using the presently silent 26-meter Agassiz Radio Telescope, located in Harvard, Mass., to listen in on 350 stars considered most likely to support extra-terrestrial civilizations...
Empty space--some scientists are paying at least $500 per half cubic meter for it, but Harvard is getting it free...
Five years in building, MMT incorporates many design innovations. All six mirrors, plus a small .8-meter (30-in.) guide telescope in the center of the cluster, are mounted on a single Y-shaped yoke that tilts and turns like a gun mount. Rather than a traditional dome, MMT's designers opted for a cheaper rectangular Y OF ARIZONA building that rotates with the telescope. A small moat keeps out dust and stray snakes, scorpions and rats. Yet MMT'S most unusual feature is its internal laser tracking system. It enables all six telescopes to follow the same...
Brel set out in his own 18-meter sailboat for the Marquesas Islands in the South Pacific, where he settled down with his West Indian mistress. He returned to France last year to record Brel, which has since sold more than 2 million copies. "There are people as unhappy and bored as I sometimes am," Brel once said, explaining his appeal. "They feel a little better that somebody knows and tells them what he knows...
DIED. Ralph Metcalfe, 68, four-term black Congressman from Chicago's South Side and former champion sprinter who won a 1936 Olympic gold medal with Jesse Owens in the 400-meter relay; of a heart attack; in Chicago. A protege of Mayor Richard Daley's, Metcalfe broke with his mentor in 1972 after complaining of police brutality toward Chicago's blacks, but he continued to win re-election handily without machine support...