Word: probe
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Search for a Leak. The Star played Fryklund's story on Page One under the headline AIR FORCE HITS TFX PROBE TACTICS. The story irritated Arkansas' Senator John McClellan, the subcommittee chairman, since he felt it reflected on his staff...
Lilley helped design the radiometer which measured the temperature on Venus during the recent Mariner II space probe. Oettinger has been directing Harvard's project on machine translation of Russian into English...
...Navy. Washington's Democratic Senator Henry ("Scoop") Jackson had called Deputy Defense Secretary Roswell Gilpatric to explain that the voters back home-who will get a crack at Jackson next year-expected an investigation, since Seattle-based Boeing Airplane had lost the contract. But Jackson said the probe would be brief and friendly...
Venusian Gales. The recent Mariner shot was so successful that it need not be repeated. The next Venus probe will be much more sophisticated. Dr. Meghreblian thinks that Venus is probably plagued by terrific winds, and he wants the next spacecraft to drop a capsule into the planet's clouds to release tough-skinned balloons that will drift with the Venusian gales. A few such balloons, carrying radios that can be followed by an orbiting spacecraft, should tell a lot about the planet's meteorology and perhaps explain what the mysterious clouds are made...
...other developments McKenna and Kenneally announced a comprehensive Senate investigation of MTA land sales which will include a probe into the Bennett St. Yard controversy...