Word: pasadena
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Ever since John Travolta mounted a mechanical toro at Gilley's Club in Pasadena, Texas, suburban cowboys everywhere have been taking the bull by the horns. "It's a macho thing," says Jerry Willrich, manager of Gilley's Bronco Shop, which sells the El Toro machine to bars around the country for big bucks ($7,495). "A guy has to beat that machine and show off for his women." Manhood, however, has been riding for more than a few falls...
...Nobody in their wildest imaginations ever dreamed of finding such features in the rings around Saturn," Allan F. Cook, associate of the Harvard College Observatory, said yesterday of the hundreds of unique ringlets recently discovered within Saturn's rings by researchers at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, Calif...
Voyager I's latest data transmissions also enabled the Pasadena scientists to determine that Titan, Saturn's largest moon, has a dense, extremely cold atmosphere, composed primarily of nitrogen. which might have allowed Titan to follow a development path similar to the earth...
Every December the ancient Romans indulged in a colossal round of drinking, carousing and tumultuous revelry. The orgiastic festival, perhaps coinciding with the winter planting, was staged to propitiate Saturn, the sickle-wielding deity of agriculture. Now scientists gathered at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena may be tempted to hold their own Saturnalia. Next week, after traveling for more than three years, their robot Voyager 1 spacecraft will achieve its closest encounter with Saturn, providing the most spectacular view yet of the beautifully ringed planet and its system of moons...
...reports from New York Bureau Chief Peter Stoler, who interviewed Sagan in Los Angeles. Stoler, who has known Sagan since 1975 when Stoler was serving as TIME'S Science writer, spent the whole day following him, from the Griffith Park Observatory to the Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, to Venice, Calif., for a photograph of Sagan "on the shore of a cosmic ocean." Explains Stoler: "Since a real cosmic ocean was unavailable, we had to settle for the Pacific." The story was researched by Philip Faflick, who held jobs programming computers and writing mathematical games for grade-school students...