Word: narrower
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Hubert Cole's Laval is neither traitor nor hero. Instead he is a complex, unprepossessing peasant, skillful but overwhelmed by pride, brilliant but narrow, who gambled his life (plus what was left of his country's honor) in the hope of horse trading with Hitler to ease the pangs of the occupation in France. "If I succeed," Laval said prophetically in the dark days of 1942, "there won't be enough stones in this country to raise statues to me. If I fail, T will be shot...
...deceptively simple in conception, but like most space hardware, it is complex in construction. Essentially, it is a mechanical eye that sweeps the sky and is rigged to notice only the 50 brightest stars. Its main working part is a small mirror that rotates inside a window, scanning narrow strips of black space. When the mirror's field of view crosses one of the 50 stars, a photocell reports the star's position to a computer. When three bright stars have been reported, the computer measures the angles between them and compares them with known angles stored...
...letter extravagantly praised Pearson's speech in favor of accepting nuclear arms for Canada's defense forces, promised him that no other Canadian politician "has gained as many devoted friends in my country as you have." As for the Conservatives then in power, they were "narrow-minded" in their policy, "unfit" to run the country, and would now be forced to echo Pearson's statements. "At the first opportune moment," concluded the letter, "I would like to discuss with you how we could be useful to you in the future. You can always count on our support...
...other side, Thomas Hornbein. 32, a San Diego anesthesiologist, and William Unsoeld, 36, a Peace Corps official, were picking their way up a vastly more difficult route-the forbidding West Ridge, a narrow spur so dangerous that nobody else had dared even try. If all went well, the two teams would meet at the summit. But for those on the West Ridge, it seemed hopeless...
...Force sponsors of West Ford had answers ready. The wires, they explained, are made so that they reflect only a narrow band of microwaves about 1.4 in. long ( 8,000 megacycles"). Other waves will not be reflected efficiently, and even if the wire belt causes some unexpected kind of trouble for radio astronomers, it will not last forever. The almost invisible wires are strongly affected by the pressure of sunlight. In five years or less, they will be pushed out of their orbit and will burn like junior meteors in the atmosphere...