Word: objective
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...lonely hills northwest of Ann Arbor, Frank Manner stepped from his farmhouse one night last week to quiet his yelping dogs. Off beyond the cornfield, he spied a glowing, "quilted" object-which he later sketched in detail -bobbing over a swamp. After a futile attempt to stalk it, Manner called police, who also saw the apparition...
...sure sign of primaveral delirium, the sighting touched off pandemic reports of preternatural phenomena across the U.S. Manner's drop-in was followed by a shimmering object that settled obligingly on a marshy Michigan hollow in full view of 87 Hillsdale Col lege coeds and a county civil-defense director. Ann Arbor's Democratic Congressman Weston E. Vivian called for a Defense Department investigation of the unearthly goings-on. Michigan's Gerald Ford, House Republican leader, suggested a congressional inquiry. Air Force investigators donned hip boots to slog through Michigan marshland...
...stylish and economical yet fairly fail-safe car that would cut highway casualties by half. Achieving that would require, among other things, more reliable brakes and sturdier tires, bigger mirrors, better window visibility, and other devices to help prevent the "first collision"-the crash between a car and another object. Much more important, the safety scientists have lately begun to emphasize the "second collision" that occurs eight-tenths of a second later-the crash between the passengers and the car's insides, or against outside objects if passengers are thrown from the car. While drivers are responsible for most...
...papers have been slow to get around to it. For one thing, they have been wary of the U.S. Justice Department, which carefully scrutinizes newspaper consolidations. But Justice, which asks that it be notified of a New York merger ten days ahead of time, says it will not object if the papers can show they are definitely losing money. Another roadblock is the unions-the typographers led by Bert Powers and Tom Murphy's Newspaper Guild. If the papers eliminate too many jobs or fail to offer sufficient compensation to dismissed employees, neither union would hesitate to strike...
...technical triumph. The most important part of the flight was the docking maneuver, and Armstrong and Scott were still in their first orbit when they began the complicated exercise in space navigation. By 4:21 p.m. E.S.T., during Gemini 8's third revolution over the Pacific, Armstrong reported: "Object in sight." There was the Agena, 76 miles ahead, its beacon flashing against the dark sky. After gradually closing the gap, Gemini 8 eased up and in front of the Agena, while swinging around so that it was flying backwards, 150 feet ahead of the target. "We are station keeping...