Word: probe
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...five minutes the capsule dropped. Then, while it was still some 12 ft. in the air, a long sensing probe hanging from its belly made contact with the ground. The sensor automatically fired two small braking rockets about the size of portable fire extinguishers. With a resounding bang and a thick cloud of grey smoke, the capsule touched down on a tricycle landing gear similar to a set of small water skis...
...market. Across the Continent, the new gas finds are lighting an investment fever and bringing some chills to a vulnerable competitor, coal. As estimates grow of the size of The Netherlands' mammoth Groningen gas field (widely regarded as twice the official 1.1 trillion cubic meters), and as oilmen probe the bottom of the North Sea for what may be even larger deposits-one big one was hit last week off the West German island of Borkum-gas is becoming Europe's new glamor fuel...
Horde of Locusts. Kontum is not waiting idly. Each night the garrison's 105-mm. howitzers pound the surrounding hills, shellbursts alternating with flares dropped by patrolling C-123s, which illuminate the jungle fronds. When guerrillas probe the perimeter wire, alarm gongs bang, trumpets sound and tin cans tied to the endless concentric coils of barbed wire rattle. By day life goes on. In the French seminary, 50 sandal-clad Vietnamese and French priests keep to their prayer schedules. Sixteen American Protestant scholars continue compiling alphabets and grammars for some 48 Montagnard tribal languages...
...Schneiderman, 43, electrical engineer and Mariner IV project director, had to make the final decisions on any hair-raising problems during the Mars encounter. He has worked on the Corporal and Jupiter missiles, was systems manager of the Mariner II Venus probe. His ideal: "To remain a virgin in outlook, not litter my mind with dogma...
Died. Francis Adams Cherry, 56, a former Arkansas Governor (1953-55), chairman of the Subversive Activities Control Board, who led the probe of the once powerful International Mine, Mill and Smelter Workers Union, in 1961 found it Communist-infiltrated; of a heart attack; in Washington...