Word: path
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...driver pulled off where three cars were parked on the side of the road, just before a curve that cut into the cliff above. "Follow the path," he said. He handed me a baggie full of his homegrown. "Straight and narrow." (People are always screaming about the dangers of hitchhiking. Why, back in seventh grade they even showed us a Highway Patrol film about murdered hitchers. The truth is that anybody who'd pick up travelers as scruffy as most hitchhikers are has got to have an ungodly quotient of Good Samaritanism--especially in North Carolina, where the only other...
...very strong, solid, and we expect it to continue throughout this year and very likely throughout 1977." Agrees Otto Eckstein, a Harvard professor who is a member of TIME'S Board of Economists: "Things are going well. Of its own accord, the economy has slowed to a sustainable path...
...lander. Scientists rate Viking's chances of a successful landing at 70%. Unlike the Apollo lunar module, which could be maneuvered out of harm's way by the astronaut pilot as it neared the moon's surface, the unmanned Viking lander must descend along a preprogrammed path all the way to its touchdown. If it encounters a large boulder, a deep crevice, too steep a slope or high winds upon landing, the craft could topple over and be forever silenced. It might conceivably even sink, antennas and all, into soft ground or a deep layer of dust...
...Descent Path. So pervasive is the notion of life on Mars that even the most skeptical scientists at J.P.L.'s mission control last week could not help being caught up in the mounting excitement about the Viking landing. Said NASA Director James Fletcher: "Can you imagine the tension building as we wait for the first pictures from the Mars surface? What will we see? Those odd, vertical upthrusts of rock we've detected on radar maps, or something like an eye peering back at us? It's all very exciting...
...craft a final checkout. Then, on instructions from the scientists, the lander, encased in a protective aeroshell, will be detached from the orbiter. About ten minutes later, two rocket engines in the aeroshell will begin firing, slowing the lander to bring it out of orbit and into a descent path. Some 150 miles from the surface, traveling at more than 10,000 m.p.h., Viking will encounter the outer fringes of the Martian atmosphere and be slowed by aerodynamic drag (the aeroshell will act as a shield to absorb frictional heat...