Word: mins
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...flew on to Denver at week's end (for the funeral services of his beloved "Min," Mamie's mother Elivera Doud, 82-see MILESTONES). From a purely political point of view, Republicans could take comfort from the roar of the week's crowds wherever he went, particularly those he heard in New York. Clearly his eight-year honeymoon with the American voter had not lost its glow...
...Daughter of Swedish immigrants, she was born in Boone, Iowa, at 16 married Meat Packer John Doud (who died in 1951). A witty woman with a tart tongue, she moved to Denver in 1904, lived and died in the same house the Douds bought then. To Ike she was "Min"-after Mrs. Andy Gump in the comic strip: she got the nickname from Ike and her two daughters, who would kiddingly chorus, "Oh, Min!" when John Doud, in search of missing apparel, called, "Oh, Mother!" to his wife. She lived in the White House from the time...
...electric stair-climbing cart. The "Stair Cat" was introduced by General Electric for moving appliances and heavy equipment, hefts a 500-lb. load up or down stairs at the rate of 18 ft. per min., automatically brakes when the motor turns...
...satellite circled the earth once every 90.6 min. at an altitude of 198.8 miles, its powerful radios broadcast its presence to listening stations all over the world. A ham radio operator in Cleveland tracked its course across the summer sky for a full eleven minutes. On its 18th pass around the world, an electronic command flashed up from earth, triggered rockets that altered the satellite's course and pointed it back toward earth. A quick blast from retrorockets slowed its descent, and a special thermal shield protected the satellite's skin against the heat generated by rapid descent...
...orbit was a triumph of precision. Echo I was circling the earth once every 121.6 min. at altitudes ranging from 1,018 to 1,160 miles. It deviated from its planned course by only one-tenth of a degree and four miles of altitude. Visible as the brightest stars in the night sky it was quickly sighted by observers in England. Australia and Japan. After it has been bombarded by meteorites and misshapen by the cold of sunless space, it is anybody's guess how long Echo I will remain on course. But this did not diminish the jubilation...