Word: rafted
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...space doctrine. That doctrine insists on the importance of gaining "capability in space." Space, the theory goes, is a new medium that man must learn to negotiate, just as he once learned to travel on water. A satellite that merely goes round the earth is like a raft floating helplessly down a river. Only when primitive men learned to guide their rafts with sails or paddles did they achieve "capability" on water. Spacecraft must accomplish equivalent guidance before space navigation is a reality. Discoverer, manufactured by the Lockheed Aircraft Corp., is a major U.S. system for achieving the assorted techniques...
...unannounced early morning seizure, U.A.R. authorities abruptly nationalized four big Cairo publishing houses. Among Nasser's new possessions: a raft of magazines and weekly newspapers, and the two most influential dailies in the Arab world. Al Akhbar (the News) and Al Ahram (the Pyramids...
Still under 30, Mason becomes "the solemn apostle of the groin." tours Europe with a raft of erotica, cases of twelve-year-old Scotch and a pneumatic mistress named Rosemarie ("that great walking Beautyrest of a woman"). When he is not blacking Rosemarie's eyes, Mason likes to pontificate on Topic A: "Sex is the last frontier ... the only area left where men can find full expression of their individuality...
...June 4 John Gunther's High Road (ABC, 8-8:30 p.m.). Huckleberry Jack is afloat on his raft of film clips, exploring the history of the Mississippi River...
...trip, he had offered some mild suggestions for change in Rhee's Korea. When the Seoul riots broke fortnight ago, Huh was in Rhee's black book again as "pro-Japanese." Rhee hates the Japanese, and as head of a commission negotiating South Korea's raft of longstanding diplomatic disputes with Japan, Huh had been more conciliatory than Rhee considered proper...