Word: pasadena
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Pago Pago-Go. Paris's Left Bank has a new fruggery called the Vincent Van Gogh-Gogh (it's just across the street from the more famous Deux Magots-Go). Duke Ellington's new place is called the Mood Indigo-Go, and the squares out in Pasadena are in waltz time at the Long, Long Ago-Go. But the most popular of all is a Jewish discothèque in The Bronx called the Let My People...
...education. Carrying on the Jesuit tradition of scholarship, dozens of young scholastics are earning doctorates in space sciences, working side by side with laymen at research centers. "When the astronauts land on the moon," says Jesuit Scholastic Don Merrifield, who works at Caltech's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, "there will be a Jesuit scientist among the entourage that follows...
ANDREW DIENES Pasadena, Calif...
...spacecraft, outbound at the end of a far-ranging radio beam. The takeoff from Cape Kennedy developed no trouble at all; the original aim was so good that Ranger IX would have hit the moon without course correction. But the scientists at Caltech's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena are well practiced by now; they intended to do much better than that. When the spacecraft was 175,000 miles from the earth, they sent it radioed orders to fire a small rocket in a specified direction for 31 seconds. Soon their computers had calculated Ranger's new course...
...spacecraft to turn on its six TV cameras. Without further fuss the incredible moon photos began to come down in a steady stream. In 1.3 seconds they made the long journey from the moon to J.P.L.'s control station in the Mojave Desert. They jumped by microwave to Pasadena, appeared in crisp detail on fine-grained, 1,152-line picture tubes and were transformed into the standard 500-line pictures of U.S. commercial television. Never had so many people had so intimate a look at the full glory of high technical achievement...