Word: mountainous
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...radar installations have established that the planet's radius is only 3,759 miles. That means that at the instant Venus 4 stopped transmitting, it must have been 15 miles above the planet's surface. The capsule, Kliore and Cain speculate, may have landed on a Venusian mountain three times as high as Mount Everest. Or more likely, it may have gone dead while still floating down through the atmosphere-a victim of electronic heat prostration. To back up their temperature estimate, the JPL men also point out that U.S. radio astronomy measurements and data from Mariner...
...only a few thousand. A man may believe that work is degrading?or the proof of manhood. He may have been taught that eating people is wrong; then again, he may relish them. He may believe in the lofty concept of one god who lives on a nearby mountain; or he may believe there is a god in every tree in the forest...
...chairman of the Urban Coalition, he is a Republican who served under both Democratic Presidents Kennedy and Johnson, spending 21 years as Secretary of Health, Education and Welfare in Johnson's Cabinet. When Gardner was HEW Secretary, Johnson effusively declared that he "can take you up on the mountain and show you the promised land. And what's more, he can lead you there." This modest book is a collection of excerpts from Gardner's speeches and writings, including quotes from his two earlier works, Excellence and Self-Renewal. In it, as he deals with contemporary social...
...editorial in the official Peking People's Daily ordered an end to factionalism, support for the army and the army-dominated revolutionary committees, and abandonment of the "mountain-stronghold mentality" by those who consider themselves more Maoist than Mao himself. These people, said the paper, are "swell-headed, and have even distorted Chairman Mao's instructions...
Coming from the staid First National Bank of Denver, the biggest bank in the six-state Rocky Mountain region (assets: $530 million), last month's outburst was an eyebrow raiser. Calling the first press conference in the bank's 108-year history, President Eugene H. Adams declared that "We are very mad about this situation." Next day First National further vented its anger by placing full-page newspaper ads to denounce what it described as a "blatant, selfish attempt of a part-time Coloradan turned New York Wall Street raider to take over...