Word: mirrors
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...keeping a gyroscopically-controlled mirror pointed directly at Venus through a port in the plane's roof the scientists were able to deflect the planet's reflected light continuously for more than an hour into the telescope, which was mounted horizontally inside the plane. During this time, they obtained 2,000 separate patterns of Venusian light on an interferometer-a device that splits a beam of light, sends each half along a path of different length, and then rejoins them in an interference pattern of light and dark fringes. Computer analysis and averaging of these patterns by scientists...
...line and solemnly slipping some silverware into their hands for the dates they had for gotten to provide for. On one occasion she overheard some House residents complain about the difficulties of watching the pretty girls in the line on weekend nights and returned to present them with a mirror...
...that the situation was potentially disastrous. British Prime Minister Harold Wilson postponed a visit to Washington because of the crisis, but Foreign Minister George Brown flew off to Moscow to talk it over with the Russians ("What could he possibly do?" sarcastically asked London's Labor-leaning Daily Mirror). The French Cabinet, after an all-day session with Charles de Gaulle, decided that it might be a good idea if all four major powers pitched in together to head off disaster-but stopped short of actually recommending such a move. Moscow, although concerned by the crisis, declined to align...
...apparently remains, haunted by totemistic objects. One is the mirror, symbol of self-knowledge, in which Lowell has seen himself as a newt and a turtle. The other is the razor, symbol of the knowledge of life that comes through the contemplation of death. The puritan-lapsed-Catholic may have arrived at the true existentialist position-confronting the possibility of suicide man learns the nature and possibilities of his life...
...Load per man for a two-day mission: Claymore mine and 240 rounds of ammo; four canteens of water and three meals of dried meat with rice; compass, flare gun, signal mirror, orange-and-cerise panel to signal for help; morphine for wounds, pep pills for drowsiness, codeine to kill coughs that might betray a position, antidysentery pills; tape to ward off leeches by closing off wrists and ankles of uniforms...