Word: moone
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Left My Heart in San Francisco. Oldtime Ellington Saxpots Jimmy Hamilton (tenor), Johnny Hodges (alto) and Harry Carney (baritone) add to the luster. Standouts are Russell Procope's low-register clarinet solo in More and Cootie Williams' soaring trumpet work on Fly Me to the Moon. And binding it all together is the deft piano scrimshaw of Ellington himself...
...computers, which designed and redesigned the antenna 42 times. The painstaking expense was worth it, producing an antenna that misses, by the thickness of a paper match, being a perfect parabola. Haystack can resolve objects down to 1/60th of a degree, could zero in on an area of the moon just 225 miles in diameter v. 4,500 miles for the bigger but less sensitive Jodrell Bank antenna in Britain. If the need ever rose, Haystack could track an object no bigger than a needle orbiting the earth 500 miles out in space. "Haystack has the same capacity for angular...
...planets. Haystack is so sensitive, and its tasks so enormous, that its operation could never be entrusted to mere men. The antenna beam will be pointed by a Univac 490, which will be able to call on a magnetic memory with a complete astronomical almanac for the sun, moon and eight planets. The computer transmits 250 instructions per second, has in its gigantic memory an incredible total of 28,000 different instructions it can give the antenna...
Thailand's King Bhumibol and his beautiful Queen Sirikit, Jordan's plucky King Hussein and Lynda Bird Johnson, all mingled merrily in the throng at the royal ball in the Athens palace gardens. Searchlights blazed a cross in the sky under a three-quarter moon, and tiaras winked thick as fireflies as 1,600 guests danced under the giant cypress trees, sipped champagne, and ate lobster and chicken off plain white plates with stainless steel cutlery...
...Your article about bridges [Aug. 28] expressed my own feelings for them. They are more awe-inspiring than rockets to the moon. I have an almost reverent regard for the minds that conceive those beautiful, unbelievable bridges...