Word: ocean
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Last week's Soviet exploit demonstrated that the lag has scarcely lessened. Official U.S. reaction to Gaga's feat was at least as nonchalant as the reaction to the first Sputnik. President Kennedy congratulated the Russians, but at his press conference he indicated that the desalinization of ocean water was even more important than space exploration. In 1958 National Aeronautics and Space Administrator T. Keith Glennan insisted that the U.S. was really not too far behind in the space race; in 1961 NASA Chief James Webb insisted that U.S. projects were "solidly based" and proceeding "step by step...
SATELLITE SERVICE between the U.S. and Europe for phone and TV signals could be working commercially within four years, says A.T.& T. Messages would be bounced off a series of satellites, caught on the opposite side of the ocean. A.T.& T. is starting a $7,000,000 experimental space-communications station in Maine...
...toughest games, made him the meet's only triple winner: loo-yd. and 220-yd. backstroke and 400-yd. individual medley-all in record times. Born in landlocked El Reno, Okla., Bittick moved to Long Beach, Calif, at eleven and quickly developed an abiding taste for the Pacific Ocean. A few years later he was a high school swimming star. At the University of Southern California, where he is captain of the swimming team, he manages to stay on dry land long enough to major in a course called television communications. Built like a halfback...
...Murray-who, with varying fortune, have tried to make good English of good Greek, or in his words from the poem, to "tell us in our time, lift the great song again." Each generation must do it in its own idiom. If there is missing "like ocean on the Western beach/The surge and thunder of the Odyssey" (in Translator Andrew Lang's phrase), it is because of the tight course Fitzgerald set himself. His aim was to make an easily spoken-verse story in the idiom of today, which is not notable for grandeur, elegance, or even the ceremonious...
Early in August 1959, homeowners along the stylish Pacific Ocean beaches in Santa Monica, Calif., were dismayed to get a new set of neighbors: a bedraggled platoon of half a hundred men and women, who moved into a rundown, three-story, red brick building that once was a National Guard armory. White and black, young and middleaged, criminals and innocents, artists and loafers, the unlikely assortment shared one trait: they were narcotics addicts determined to kick their habit for good...