Word: probe
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...credit-and blame-for implementing policies. More and more, G.M. is using earthy Jim Roche instead of steely Fred Donner as its public voice. It was Roche who went to Washington to apologize for the embarrassing fact that G.M. underlings-unbeknownst to Roche-had hired detectives to probe the private affairs of Safety Crusader Ralph Nader. When G.M. makes delicate pronouncements about auto safety, quality control or production cutbacks, Jim Roche does...
...rich young stranger (Maurice Ronet), who is interested in uxoricide for its instructional value. Caught between a neurotic wife who won't give him a pleasant word or a divorce and a delectable mistress (Marina Vlady) who will give him just about anything, Ronet begins to hang around Probe's bookshop, asking questions...
Huguenin hopes that this test vehicle, to be called Probe I, will be sent up near the end of this year. It will not orbit the earth, and its flight will last for only 30 minutes, he said. The test vehicle will include one of the two antennas planned for Pilgrim and two of the three spectrometers. Probe I will be launched from a NASA base in Virginia...
...ended in failure. He has also beaten the Russians to the punch in revealing some of the first details of their manned space flights. In addition, he has cooperated with the U.S. space program by using the Jodrell Bank telescope to obtain telemetry from the Pioneer and Mariner space probes, even to send the signal that fired the second stage on the Pioneer 5 deep-space probe...
Castigating Russians. Inevitably, Lovell has become best known to the public for his tracking exploits, and he is usually called upon to comment on all significant missions and probes. He obviously enjoys his role of space expert and he has been outspokenly frank-handing out unreserved praise for both Russian and U.S. space achievements while bluntly criticizing what he considers misguided efforts. In 1962 he violently opposed the U.S. hydrogen-bomb explosion in space over the Pacific, and has spoken out against a communications experiment that placed a band of metallic needles in orbit. In both cases he was convinced...