Word: reach
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...increasing excitement is no less of a challenge for the staff of TIME'S Science section in New York. Associate Editor Leon Jaroff, who wrote the cover story, says that he still cannot quite come to terms with the astounding fact that a manned capsule will almost surely reach the moon in his lifetime. Researcher Sydnor Vanderschmidt, who has worked on 18 Science covers, twelve of them concerned with space, admits that for her the novelty of space flight had begun to wane-until she began collecting information about the coming moon mission. As she went back over...
...state supreme court may rule that the shadow which protects marriage does not reach "illicit intercourse." Balliro did not choose to predict that this argument will convince the court. But the argument does give Balliro a chance to list ways in which the laws impose frightening penalties upon those who are prevented from learning about or from taking advantage of birth control devices. The arguments take up only five pages of an 80-page brief, but a sample shows that they give the reasons behind most of the other legal reasoning...
...divided and weak to defend them selves, the sheikdoms will be wide open to subversion when the British depart unless the Shah and Feisal fill the vacuum. No agreement was reached at Riyadh on joint defense measures. But, taking no chances, Iran pushed ahead with plans to spend hundreds of millions of dollars on arms and development in the region. The Iranians are adding three minesweepers to the nine minesweepers and 125 patrol boats already on duty in the Gulf. The first two squadrons of U.S.-built Phantom jets have arrived at the southern Iranian air base of Vahdati, only...
...year of sales in excess of $4 billion-and see an even brighter future ahead. Said Ford President Semon Knudsen at the American Trucking Associations' convention last week: "We expect the total truck market to pass a 2,000,000 annual rate in the early 1970s and to reach...
Knudsen has good reason to gloat. For the first time since 1935, Ford trucks are expected to outsell the longtime leader, Chevrolet. By Nov. 10, Ford had sold 562,000 trucks, against Chevrolet's 548,000; it expects to reach an alltime record of 650,000 by Jan. 1. Yet Chevrolet should not feel too bad: its truck sales are expected to increase by 11% over last year...