Word: pads
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Psychologists at Pensacola Naval Air Station now give pilot-training candidates an aptitude test by punch keys and computer in 45 minutes, as against two days with pad and pencil...
...three French-built, ten-passenger Falcons. Among other clients are Xerox, Mead Johnson, IBM, General Electric, White Motor Corp., Cincinnati Milling Machine and HMH Publishing Co., whose Playboy Publisher Hugh Hefner flies out to give campus lectures on the philosophy of sex, always jets back to his Chicago pad by bedtime...
...female trapeze act, and Rod Taylor doughtily goes through the motions of Doris-appreciation without losing his grip. As a combination scientific whiz kid and loverboy, Rod invents an anti-gravity device, heads a U.S. space center for NASA, goes home after launch to a more or less circular pad with a guest wing as roomy as a Holiday Inn. One unit is decorated in passionate red, and the whole house is the sort of marshmallow dream that Hollywood merchants manufacture year after year to spoon glamour into the dull, grey life of your average mortgage-holder...
...been scrubbed, once on May 17 when the Agena target failed to orbit, and again earlier in the week when Gemini 9's on-board computer rejected vital data three minutes before liftoff. Now, for the third time, Astronauts Tom Stafford and Eugene Cernan wearily returned to the pad at Cape Kennedy for a mission that had the earmarks of a rueful joke...
...first, the humorous approach seemed to work. The giant Titan 2 rocket rose on schedule from the launch pad and placed Gemini 9 in an almost perfect orbit. Then, after only three revolutions around the earth, Stafford and Cernan sighted and successfully rendezvoused with their quarry-the Augmented Target Docking Adapter (ATDA) that had been launched into or bit two days before. But there before their eyes was another disappointment...