Word: orbiter
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Lausanne, she plays hostess to any of her favorite people who happen to be passing through: Truman Capote, Yul Brynner, David Niven, Noel Coward. At Lake Worth, the Guinnesses can usually count on people in the Kennedy orbit, including the fun-loving Kennedys themselves; at one party, held when Jacqueline Kennedy was in Florida recently, Gloria and Mrs. Kennedy had a high old time doing the Twist* on the tile floors by the patio. Says Gloria: "It's a gay, amusing life...
...rocket took off from Cape Canaveral just before dawn carrying a canister containing a tightly folded deflated balloon of plastic film and aluminum foil. This was Echo A12, an experimental successor to Echo I, the 100-ft. radio-reflector that was launched on Aug. 12, 1960, and is still orbiting the earth. Echo A12 was not expected to orbit; its job was merely to expand in space and test a new kind of aluminized film that would stay rigid after the gas that blew up the balloon had escaped through meteor punctures...
...that has been projected on that screen in the past 24 hours. One recent morning report indicated that NORAD had spotted seven Soviet aircraft tracks over Siberia, 17 unidentified planes above North America (each was checked as friendly within five minutes), 121 satellites and pieces of satellite debris in orbit around the earth, and 20 Russian trawlers cruising off Newfoundland's Grand Banks and the Aleutians...
...Soviet's annual New Year's bash in the Kremlin, convivial Cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin, 27, buttonholed the ornament of the U.S. embassy, vivacious Jane Thompson, 41, and proposed, "How would you like to go into orbit with me?" Responded the lissome wife of Ambassador Llewellyn Thompson: "Why, I'd be frightened to death. Besides," she added smoothly, "I'm not in training...
...Canaveral and flew its long-range missiles over the ocean. The Russians stuck to the land, seem to have found no special difficulty in bringing their spacecraft down on solid ground. Eventually, argues the Holloman Bulletin, the U.S. will have to do the same. Large manned spaceships returning from orbit or the moon are far too valuable to drop into the unpredictable ocean. If they head for a land spaceport, they can be guided by radar stations from positions that are stationary and precisely located. Their pilots will be able to guide on well-known landmarks...