Word: partings
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...meet with the N.L.F. for discussion of "the timetable and the modalities under which the elections will be held." Thieu did not specify which offices might be contested or how the voting would be supervised, but he invited "all political parties and groups," including the N.L.F., to take part in overseeing the elections...
From an equipment bay on the other side of the LM, the busy spacemen will remove EASEP (for Early Apollo Scientific Experiments Payload). They will set up one part of the package?a laser-beam reflector?some 70 ft. from the LM. The other experiment, a seismometer for measuring moonquakes and meteor impacts, will be placed 10 ft. farther away. Both will be left on the moon for the benefit of earthbound scientists (see following section...
...lunar environment is also ideal for cyclotrons and other devices that accelerate subatomic particles in a vacuum. For the same reason, electron beam-welding?which also requires a high vacuum?would be facilitated on the moon. Another joining process, cold-welding, could become an important part of lunar industry. In a vacuum, two perfectly clean and smooth metal surfaces?uncontaminated by oxides that are formed in the earth's atmosphere ?can be welded solidly together without heat and with little pressure...
...made his first flight at six in an old Ford tri-motor. As a boy, he was forever assembling model airplanes, and while other youngsters were still scrambling for comic books, he went right for the aeronautical publications when the magazine shipments arrived on the stands. He worked part time in the drugstore (400 an hour) and as a grease monkey at the airfield to accumulate the money for flying lessons ($9 an hour), and earned his pilot's license on his 16th birthday, the first day he was eligible. For a while, he had to bicycle the three miles...
...rail and communications center of Khabarovsk. Like Damansky Island in the Ussuri, a tributary of the Amur, where the first major clashes took place last March, Goldinsky Island sits in the middle of a river that forms the frontier where China and Russia meet. The Soviets claim the eastern part of the small island; the Chinese* insist that it is all theirs...