Word: ocean
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...fewer recreational facilities than Sun City, but its chief feature is guaranteed until-death medical care, including treatment in the colony's hospital. The price can be high: as much as $27,500. For this, plus a monthly $200 maintenance charge, a buyer receives lifetime tenancy of an ocean-view cottage, free meals in the community center, free linens, and cleaning service every two weeks...
...July 29: 10 a.m. Chamber Music Hall - Friends Event - BMC Chamber Music 2:30 p.m. Shed - Boston Symphony Orchestra - Conductor: Pierre Monteux - Beethoven: Symphomy No.2 - Purcell: Dido's Lament (Gray-Masse) - Weber: "Ocean Thou Mighty Monster" (Gray-Masse) - Strauss: Ein Heldenleben...
High Relay. Last week was the first time that a satisfactory TV picture ever crossed an ocean. TV signals contain so much information that they cannot be carried by submarine cables or by radio waves that carom around the globe bouncing back and forth under the ionized layers of the upper atmosphere. They must travel on microwaves, which follow paths as straight as beams of light; getting them past the curve of the earth requires a relay station high enough so that it shows above the horizon from both shores. Telstar served this purpose for a historic few minutes last...
...native ocean the sea lamprey is not particularly numerous, but ever since it appeared in Lake Erie in 1921, having worked its way up the Welland Canal past Niagara Falls, the repulsive eellike creature has been swarming in the lakes. With its round, suckerlike mouth lined with concentric rows of small, sharp teeth, it makes its living by attaching itself to the side of an unlucky fish. Its teeth rasp a hole; its powerful saliva corrodes the fish's flesh and keeps its blood flowing freely. Many fish die of a single lamprey attack...
When spacecraft are fired from Cape Canaveral, recovery of the segment that returns to earth often becomes a full-dress Navy spectacular. Destroyers, carriers, airplanes and helicopters scout hundreds of miles of ocean to pull an encapsuled astronaut out of the drink or save a set of valuable instruments. But such shows are so costly that they are attempted only when the cargo that comes back from space is especially important. Most of the Cape's missiles and satellites deliver all their information by radio and are abandoned when they...