Word: raye
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...mood for broken doorbells and locked gates, having suffered through the last hour or more guarding the only pay phone within miles at the Malibu sheriff's office, trying vainly to break the Rex Reed busy-signal barrier. Suddenly, like Ray Bolger bouncing onstage for a final bow, he is there before me, has waved hello, left three sentences hanging on the air like a vapor trail from a Boeing 707, and is breezing back inside before I even hear him : "It's-just-frantic-around-here-I've-been -on -the -phone - all-morning...
...spotted the beginnings of a solar flare, an extremely hot outburst of high-energy particles on the surface of the sun that often precedes magnetic storms in the earth's ionosphere. Within minutes, an Aerobee rocket soared from its launch pad, carrying with it the largest X-ray telescope ever sent into space...
...Aerobee arced above the atmosphere, which screens X rays from the earth, a camera focused on the image of the 9-in. telescope began shooting pictures. The film pack, dropped back to earth by parachute, contained a dozen of the most detailed X-ray photographs ever taken of the sun. The prints showed the X-ray structure of a flare at the sun's center. Other X-ray-emitting solar regions came through as bright splotches on an otherwise dark disk...
Overwhelmed. The shifting group of conferees contained its own roster of notables: Thomas Dewey, Herbert Brownell, Billy Graham, Everett Dirksen, Gerald Ford, Barry Goldwater, Karl Mundt, Party Chairman Ray Bliss. Finally, after a brief break for a nap and a breakfast of cold cereal, Nixon convened still another meeting. By this time, the possibilities had been reduced to five: Senator Charles Percy; Lieutenant Governor Robert Finch of California, a longtime Nixon friend and associate; Congressman Rogers Morton of Maryland; Governor John Volpe of Massachusetts ("It might be nice," Nixon observed, "to have an Italian Catholic on the ticket...
...Hatfield, Illinois' Chuck Percy, Massachusetts' Ed Brooke; in the House, Illinois' Donald Rumsfeld and Texas' George Bush. The statehouses provide the largest contingent, for it is the Governors who most directly confront the nagging problems of urban America. There are New York's Rockefeller, Massachusetts' John Volpe, Pennsylvania's Ray Shafer, Rhode Island's John Chafee, Maryland's Spiro Agnew, Colorado's John Love...