Word: meters
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...skipper, Ted Turner, entered every contest mouth-first. The boat, Courageous, was secondhand. The oddsmakers, having surveyed the competition-two new 12-meter yachts constructed for the 23rd defense of the America's Cup-had consigned the captain and his Courageous to third place. But last week, after two months and two rounds of preliminary races-with a final one beginning Aug. 16 still to go -Turner's tenacity and cunning helmsmanship brought Courageous home to Newport, R.I., leading in the trials to select a boat to represent the U.S. hi the Cup. So far, Turner...
...desolation of war. The moment comes when the narrator sights an "endless" column of Russian soldiers marching under guard. These are the former German P.O.W.s who were dispatched to the Stalinist camps for the crime of having been captured by the enemy. Abruptly, the relentless drumbeat tempo of the meter shifts to a solemn pace...
Fading Light. Astronomers have known of the existence of the star -dubbed MWC 349-since the 1930s. But it was not until this past year that researchers studying the star through the 2.3-meter (90 in.) infra-red telescope at Arizona's Steward Observatory and the 91-cm. (36 in.) infra-red scope in Ames' Kuiper Airborne Observatory, realized how unusual it was. In simultaneous observations, the scientists discovered that the star, already ten times the size and 30 times the mass of the sun, was surrounded by a great glowing disc some 224 million km. (approximately...
...been ordered, and how sales are going. Ted Hood, the company's head, is recognized as one of the world's greatest sailmakers and yachtsmen. On a freezing cold and rainy day last winter he was out with his crew testing a new jib for the Courageous, the 12-meter boat he will skipper in the America's Cup races this summer. The lower right photograph shows the result of this particular test...
Hasan Kayli placed first in the triple jump with a 44 ft. 7 in. leap, and John Shafee won the 800 meter...