Word: near-misses
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...path as perfectly. We just don't know where it is as well." Still he was confident. "If we can just get into the same plane with Gemini 7, we'll be OK. We have all the correcting devices we need to home in--there won't be a near-miss on this flight...
...facts and figures to prove that they pay off. Coca-Cola values its secret formula (along with trademarks) at $43 million, and many other companies feel that the worth of their secret is greater than the net value of their companies. Sales of such products are sizable, while near-miss competitors fail. At the Angostura office in Port of Spain, the Siegert family has an elaborate display making that point. It shows more than 100 brands of bitters that over the years tried to match the real Angostura in taste and bottle, and in each case failed and faded away...
...After a near-miss by Kinasewich following a beautiful dribbling exhibition, Bill Fryer grabbed a rebound and slipped it past Dunham...
Behind O'Hiri is a team which continues to approach the level of the preseason speculation about it. The number of near-miss shots at Tufts by inside Seamus Malin and halfbacks Davies and Billy Ward indicates that more than one man on the team can score. The steady stream of passes from the halfbacks and Captain Ted Wendell indicates that they will...
...Domains. Scurrying to make up for lost time after Sputnik I, the U.S. has put five satellites into orbit (Explorers I, III and IV, Vanguard, Atlas); fired two near-miss lunar probes (Pioneers I and III); started on an array of other satellite or space-probe projects; let development contracts with the Rocketdyne Division of North American Aviation Inc. for space-rocket engines with thrusts of 1,000,000 lbs. or more; pushed a man-in-space undertaking, Project Mercury, that is scheduled for announcement this month. But despite the flurry of projects, the U.S. has made disappointingly little progress...