Word: probe
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...first probe, sent up a few weeks, prior to Aug. 27, was a failure and had to be destroyed after launching...
...second probe, Mariner II, was entirely successful and arrived at Venus last Friday. The measurements of Venus were radioed to tracking stations in, California. Lilley, in Cambridge, was able to listen to a "moment-by-moment account" of the craft's performance over the phone...
...Reports (CBS, 7:30-8:30 p.m.).* Two days before the Mariner II space probe passes within 21,000 miles of Venus, CBS probes the possible discoveries that its instruments could make...
...Theory. Khrushchev's Cuban adventure seemed just such a probe. He hoped to present the U.S. with a fait accompli, carried out while the U.S. was totally preoccupied-or so, at least, Khrushchev supposed-with its upcoming elections. If he got away with it, he could presume that the Kennedy Administration was so weak and fearful that he could take over Berlin with impunity...
...Hodgkin's disease.) There may be miles of lymphatic ducts, but they are so fragile and elusive that nobody has measured them. Often buried in fat, they shrink to the vanishing point when not filled with fluid, and disappear at the gentlest touch of the anatomist's probe...