Word: orbit
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...farmer's lyrical letter to Khrushchev: "Affectionately our people call corn 'Nikita's daughter,' and in truth you, Nikita Sergeevich, gave corn its vital importance. I think we can compare corn, the queen of the fields, with a rocket that will thrust us into the orbit of Communist abundance and help us sooner to overtake America." But when Polyansky began talking about poor local corn harvests, Khrushchev interrupted: "Once you've taken an obligation and failed, then write: 'Comrades, I've flopped. I ask to be relieved and that my post be given...
Dean Watson becomes Master of Dunster House and is thus eliminated from consideration for football coach and Dean of the Faculty.... The Soviet Union puts a man in orbit around the earth. Khrushchev declines comment on reports that the space traveler is Mao Tse-tung. The United States, aiming for the moon, lands a man in the Congo.... Kennedy, in a televised press conference, announces that "this country is moving again." ....Eisenhower, in retirement publishes a book on Cuba called "Listen, C. Wright Mills!" Castro, whose vocabulary is becoming limited, denounces the work as a "provocation" ... Harvard still needs...
...Almost inevitably, space science was the glamour science. The U.S. sent into orbit satellites Tiros I and Tiros II, which observed the earth's weather from above and sent back thousands of cloud-pattern pictures that are revolutionizing meteorology. The U.S.'s Courier I-B showed what can be done by a satellite packed with electronic equipment and acting as a relay station for forwarding floods of messages almost instantaneously around the curve of the earth. Echo I, the 100-ft. balloon satellite, which is still a striking naked-eye spectacle in the sky, showed the value of a large...
Explorer VII, launched in October 1959, is still in orbit and still sending information. It has made nearly 2,300 passes and sent observations from nearly 1,000,000 data points. In 1960 it reported on the effects of two unusually violent eruptions on the sun. As the sun threw out vast streams of charged particles, charts were made via Explorer VII of their intensity and effects on the radiation belts. Never before had earth's scientists so good a ringside seat for watching solar explosions. Van Allen is sure that future satellites carrying instruments will yield even better information...
...their transmitter toward the sun, they will know the speed at which their star is approaching the solar system or receding from it. They will therefore allow for the slight shift of frequency caused by this motion. They may also allow for the motion of their planet on its orbit, but cannot know the earth's orbital motion. This final fine tuning will have to be done at the receiver on earth...