Word: pilgrims
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Huguenin said yesterday that he submitted the idea last fall. The vehicle would be called Pilgrim and is intended to look at the sun's radio emissions in ranges not detectable from earth, Huguenin said...
...Pilgrim would be launched during a period of major sunspot activity, and Huguenin hopes to find new facts about the atmosphere of the sun and about sunspot emission...
...Space Systems Division of Avco Corporation in Lowell will construct the Pilgrim craft and might even design the launching craft, Huguenin said. This question will not be decided until the project gets final government approval expected early this summer...
...today is known mainly for its hounds, carpets and pistachio nuts. Its rugged, ruin-strewn terrain is still strategically important, the geopolitical crossroads between China, Russia, India and Iran. But centuries ago it was a well-traveled highway. Remarked Hsüan-tsang, a 7th century Chinese Bud dhist pilgrim, of this 800-mile bridge between the East and West: "Here are found objects of merchandise from all parts...
...shoes. Never has high-fashion footwear been so low. When models didn't walk barefoot, they paraded out in flat Mary Janes with straps round the ankle or across the instep. What heels there were, came in the shape of round rhinestone-covered balls or thick Pilgrim squares...