Word: probe
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...More Hatred. If Critic Davis has to probe history to attack the play itself, he does not have to go so far to fault the performers. Tradition has it that all of the performers should lead exemplary lives. With the present cast, including Christ and Judas, this is notably not the case: they were members of the Nazi Party. The play's longtime director, 70-year-old Woodcarver George Johann Lang, offers an explanation: "I was a Nazi, and I was jailed for it for two years after the war. I hoped that the Nazis would bring order into...
Pioneer V, part of a National Aeronautics and Space Administration experiment headed by rumpled, energetic Dr. Abe Silverstein, 51, was originally intended to send a probe to the close vicinity of Venus. The best time for the launch would have been last June. But the payload was not ready then, and a launch scheduled for December was canceled because of instrument failure. By March, Venus was far away, but NASA decided to shoot anyway. Though the Venus probe will never probe Venus intimately, it can (if all goes well) gather vital information about interplanetary space...
Slower Is Closer. To shoot at Venus or its orbit, a probe must be shot in the opposite direction to the motion of the earth on its orbit around the sun. Most of its speed will be expended in pulling away from the earth's gravitation. Any speed left over will be subtracted from the orbital speed (66,600 m.p.h.) that the probe had-as every mountain, building and man has-as part of the earth. Left behind in space with reduced speed, the probe will curve inward toward...
...Lunar Probe. In Northfield, N.J., Eileen Bengal, 2½, climbed to the top of a 50-ft. television tower next to her home, when rescued beamed: "I was trying to go to the moon...
...stands in political Washington, the beleaguered 16-month-old National Aeronautics and Space Administration last week finally got around to telling where it intends to go. Unwrapped before the House Science and Astronautics Committee was a ten-year plan of space exploration calling for 260 satellite and space-probe launchings during the '60s, beginning with twelve launchings this year. Highlights of NASA's timetable...