Word: proper
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...those who argue that new Soviet jamming techniques would cause today's electronic-laden aircraft to lose their way in Berlin's frequent mists, Tunner suggests an old-fashioned remedy: complete radio silence and conventional, though strictly controlled, blind flying. By sticking tightly to proper headings, noting elapsed time and speed, the pilots should have no trouble hitting West Berlin. Once there, haze-piercing, coded ground lights could direct them into Tegel with no complex letdown pattern. Tunner's key to a successful lift in bad weather: discipline must be rigid; the pilot can have almost...
...Western experts quickly calculated, Titov would have to wait 17 orbits before the earth's rotation rolled the globe under him so that central Russia was in the proper position for his re-entry and landing. While Titov was soaring over southwest Africa on his 17th circuit of the globe, his retrorockets fired to slow the space capsule and send it plunging back into the atmosphere. He had a choice, he said later, of riding his capsule all the way to earth, or of parachuting out once he dropped low enough. He chose to eject from the Vostok...
...tall dispenser offers 53 different items, picked for appeal to commuters and travelers, ranging from muumuu nightgowns and panties to flashlights and pocket compasses. The machine accepts any amount of money up to $9.99 in any combination of coins or bills, visually records the amount paid in, returns the proper change when the customer has completed his shopping. Says the machine's attendant: "People are still a little bit afraid of it. They don't seem to want to put those greenbacks...
...Your Child (Crown; $2.95), which consists of more than 700 problems and puzzles in the pattern of I.Q. tests. They will not make him brighter. But because "a poor showing on an I.Q. test can ruin your child's educational progress-perhaps forever," says Rosenfeld. "it is proper, even urgent that all children be taught how to take these tests...
...case a spherical-shaped, pingpong-ball-sized metal typing element bearing all the familiar 88 alphabetical characters, numerals and punctuation symbols. When the typist strikes the keyboard, the typewriter's motor rapidly tilts and rotates the element on its axis as it moves across the paper, bringing the proper character into position for printing. The element is then rocked against ribbon and paper to print the character. This is essentially the same principle used by the Dow-Jones business-news ticker and the old Hammond typewriter...