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...Schirra pulled to within a foot of the other spacecraft and held up a sign for Gemini 7's command pilot, West Point Graduate Frank Borman. It read: "Beat Army." Later, on the same flight, he reported that he had sighted "an object" going into polar orbit. "Stand by," said Schirra, "it looks like he's trying to signal us." He then whipped out a harmonica and began to play Jingle Bells. The UFO, of course, was Santa Claus...
...guided from the Goddard Space Flight Center at Greenbelt, Md. NASA scientists there had to perform a series of intricate maneuvers before they could call for the unreeling of the satellite's four main antennas. First they had to nudge the 417-Ib. satellite into a circular, near-polar orbit about 3,640 miles above the earth with precisely timed bursts of a small rocket called an apogee-kick motor. Tho operation evened out the varying gravitational tugs of the original elliptical orbit, which would have bent and distorted the antennas. Next, RAE-A's masters...
BARROW, ALASKA, July 12--The sun hasn't set here for the past two months, but the Arctic pack ice has only recently started to break in the waters surrounding this Navy research installation. Eight-hundred miles out on the ice, in an area usually populated only by polar bears, seals, and occasional gulls, four British explorers have set up a summer camp on a floe of old ice. They have been traveling for more than four months by dog sled...
...Cole, man is thus reducing the rate of oxygen regeneration, and Cole envisions a crisis in which the amount of oxygen on earth might disastrously decline. Other scientists fret that rising carbon dioxide will prevent heat from escaping into space. They foresee a hotter earth that could melt the polar icecaps, raise oceans as much as 400 ft., and drown many cities. Still other scientists forecast a colder earth (the recent trend) because man is blocking sunlight with ever more dust, smog and jet contrails. The cold promises more rain and hail, even a possible cut in world food. Whatever...
Konrad Lorenz, the Austrian-born naturalist, believes that human aggressiveness is the instinct that powers not only self-preservation against enemies but also love and friendship for those who share the struggle. Overcoming obstacles provides selfesteem; lacking such fulfillment, man turns against handy targets-his wife, even himself. Polar explorers, deprived of quarrels with strangers, often start to hate one another; the antidote is smashing some inanimate object, like crockery. Accident-prone drivers may be victims of "displaced aggression." The once ferocious Ute Indians, now shorn of war outlets, have the worst auto-accident rate on record...