Word: pureed
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...deaths of the astronauts brought to a head longstanding differences between advocates of pure-oxygen atmospheres for spacecraft and those who favor a two-gas system. The fire hazard inherent in a pure-oxygen system had discomforted space officials for years. In 1962, two crewmen in a space-cabin simulator at San Antonio were overcome by fumes from an instrument-panel fire but were rescued without serious injury. The same year, four men in an oxygen-filled test chamber in Philadelphia suffered second-degree burns when a short circuit in a lighting fixture caused a fire...
...NASA report on fire and blast hazards in spacecraft atmospheres noted that materials which were not highly combustible in a normal atmosphere erupted into flames during the Philadelphia blaze. Critics' suspicions seemed tragically justified last week when two airmen perished in a fire that flashed through the pure-oxygen atmosphere of a sealed test chamber at the U.S. Air Force School of Aerospace Medicine at San Antonio. The difficult decision now facing NASA is whether or not to continue to provide American astronauts with a pure-oxygen atmosphere...
...President's family turned it down cold. Last week a second effort, by famed Architect Marcel Breuer, was brusquely and unanimous ly rejected - this time by the Washington Fine Arts Commission. Breuer's design envisaged free-standing walls radiating from a central court yard (TIME, Dec. 30). "Pure geometry," he called it, and won approval from the family and the Roosevelt Memorial Commission. Not so the Fine Arts Commission, which must pass on all public construction in Washington. "Such a memorial requires the highest standards of artistic achievement and significance," said Commission Chair man William Walton. "The proposed...
...bored. On the 535-yd. eleventh hole, Jack swung mightily for the pin. The ball missed the pond all right-but wound up instead in a bunker off the green. That cost him a stroke and the tournament lead: one stroke behind Billy Casper, tied with Arnold Palmer. "Pure Fun." Back to Pebble Beach for the last round went Casper, Nicklaus and Palmer, the three top money winners of 1966-and for that matter of all time (total earnings: $1,875,759). Now was Jack's chance to show everybody who was really the world's best golfer...
...University has to sell itself today -- to students, prospective faculty, and to donors, both private and corporate. It has to project an image which will attract the best of all three. The University of Chicago does not have as much pure prestige as some of the Ivy League universities. Nor is it as way out as Berkeley. Being Midwestern, it is probably in the middle, and is trying hard to establish its own identity. Three factors will probably determine the outcome of this identity crisis -- the university's educational reputation, its Chicago neighborhood, and financial needs...