Word: phasing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...scientists at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory control center in Pasadena, the difficult task of nursing Surveyor to a point 60 miles above the moon's surface was far less harrowing than the final phase of the trip. For in the long moments of the last drop, Surveyor's own computers and radar were issuing the necessary orders. And back on earth, 230,930 miles away, the craft's creators could do no more-no more than pray that their design and pre-launch calculations were all correct...
...period of "idling" is necessary. The progress in the past five years has been confied to a strengthening of the various departments in the field. Harvard has passed the point where any appointment is bound to bring nods of approval simply because something is better than nothing. The next phase of the building program requires a period of coordination. Shining lights exist, but a coordinated and expanded base must be developed...
Tempting Target. Thus did Nasser, in a breast-beating May Day speech, serve notice last week that the 45-month-old battle for Yemen was entering a crucial new phase. The Egyptian-Saudi truce signed last August is clearly dead. Nasser refuses to pull out of Yemen, as promised. And the Saudis refuse to stop pouring in aid, as promised. Saudi arms and supplies are flowing back again to Imam el Badr's Royalists through the southern Saudi towns of Najran and Qizan, and from the South Arabian town of Beihan al Qasab. Almost nightly, planes drop supplies over...
...unprejudiced against experimental art even though known work was a continuation of Delacroix along traditional lines. With Moreau's encouragement, Matisse did many "free" copies of masterworks in Louvre, to study their structure manner of expression. Books and Candle (1890) is one of the early works in this 'student phase' of Matisse career (see illustration...
Amid all the unrealities, the Rhodesian crisis did enter a new phase last week. Smith's white security forces, led by helicopters, trapped a small band of guerrillas in the hills 85 miles northwest of Salisbury. Seven of the guerrillas were killed. Smith's government charged that they had all crossed the border from Zambia the week before. What ever their point of origin, the significance of the encounter was clear. For the first time since Smith seized inde pendence last November, Rhodesia's blacks were beginning to fight...