Word: peakes
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...sleeping couches, the Apollo system, weighing 56,900 lbs., or more than seven times the Gemini spacecraft, blasted off from Cape Kennedy riding the nose of a 22-story-high Saturn 1 rocket. After separating from the Saturn booster, Apollo fired its own rocket engine and soared to a peak altitude of 706 miles over South Africa. Then, as the space ship began to descend, its engine was fired three more times in successful tests of its capabilities...
...wool knickers, taped his ankle, kissed his wife Margaret goodbye, and set out from the 10,000-ft.-high base camp an hour after midnight. There were eleven in the party, including 16-year-old Son Craig and 22-year-old Daughter Kathleen. By dawn they were on the peak, admiring the panorama of Washington's Cascade Range stretched out below. "For a man who spends his life behind a desk, it was a splendid performance," said Mount Everest Hero Jim Whittaker. "If he hadn't injured his ankle, we would have had trouble keeping up with...
...peak, the five-and-a-quarter hour teach-in almost filled the bottom level of Lowell Lec, but by 11:30 p.m. there were perhaps thirty people left.Three faces of WILLIAM J. LEDERER, who appeared briefly to answer a question at the Teach-in at Lowell Lecture Hall...
...interior of an auto serves as a kind of reverberating chamber, the sound envelops the listener as though he were sitting in the middle of the New York Philharmonic cello section. Indeed, the sound is so all-encompassing that, with the windows closed and the volume turned up to peak levels, it is difficult to tell if the horns are playing 1812 Overture or "Look out!" Though Safety Crusader Ralph Nader labels the tapes as "Just another step toward insulating the driver completely from the outside," the National Safety Council believes that stereo played at a normal volume...
...John F. Kennedy's assassination. Throughout the rest of the week, the market tried bravely to rally, failed, and ended up at a Dow-Jones average of 847.38, a new low for the year, and down 148 points, or 15%, from Feb. 9's peak of 995.15. The Big Board's new flattened-out index (TIME, July 22) slipped one point to 45.29, or 2%. The Dow-Jones rail average also hit a 1966 low of 220.26, a fact that immediately led some pessimists to recall a Wall Street adage to the effect that when industrials...