Word: probe
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Andy Schaffer '63, despite a stated desire to avoid them, made headlines when he was appointed chairman of the HCUA investigating committee and began his long probe of the ticket problem. He made headlines, but he also made progress...
Lunden and Bolles, who had feared a hatchet squad, found the Schaffer committee thorough, thoughtful, and modest in its demands. When the probe was finished, the HCUA issued a public report calling for some changes in hockey and swimming ticket arrangements, and privately talked over putting in a simpler football ticket system...
...Faculty Committee on Athletic Sports were receptive to both sets of suggestions, and the HCUA probe, which could have been another case of well-meaning but impolitic students butting their heads fruitlessly against an administration wall, ended in positive accomplishment...
...Venus probe Mariner II raced through space last week, it slipped past a significant milestone: it effectively escaped from the earth's gravitation and became a satellite of the sun. But far out as it reached, it did not escape from the earth's control. Back on the fast-receding planet, 1,500,000 miles away, the scientists who built the spacecraft could still hear its radio voice, still send it orders...
...Mariner II moved on toward Venus, the National Aeronautics and Space Administration announced that the Soviets have made six attempts to send probes to Mars or Venus. One probe, launched on Feb. 12, 1961, passed somewhere near Venus, but with its radio long dead. The other five tries were unqualified flops...