Word: refuelling
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...mother ship for the return trip to earth. NASA now thinks that this bizarre-sounding system will prove the easiest, quickest and cheapest way to get the job done. But cautious NASA scientists will continue to study EOR (Earth Orbital Rendezvous), in which a moon-bound spaceship will first refuel from a tanker circling in orbit around the earth...
...isolation on a continent now virtually run by black Africans. Already. South African Airways has begun regular nonstop, 5,000-mile flights to Europe with its Boeing 707 jets, for the number of countries on the Dark Continent that will permit South Africa's planes to land and refuel is shrinking fast...
...soldiers wore civvies, carried no arms and traveled aboard regularly scheduled commercial airlines-as they had done for months-nobody complained. But fortnight ago the Dutch decided to step up the airlift by chartering two special flights, and Japan promptly closed Tokyo International Airport to the jets for refueling. Forced to find an alternate route, the Dutch won U.S. permission to refuel at Anchorage, Honolulu and Wake Island...
...huge gift is supposed to make Wilson comparable in quality "to the country's best schools of medicine and law." With $35 million to spread around, enrollment will probably triple; field projects may expand abroad. Along with gifted young recruits for government, the school will intellectually refuel veteran officials in "mid-career." A key effort: aiding scientists who run big federal projects but have too little knowledge of history and politics. The school's executive secretary, Dr. Robert van de Velde, defines its mission this way: "To unspecialize the specialist, and show the wide-eyed college graduate...
...m.p.h. won him the coveted pole position for the second year in a row. Foyt and Sachs exchanged the lead ten times before Foyt suffered the nightmare that has haunted motorists ever since the days of the model T: he ran out of gas. When Foyt paused disconsolately to refuel, Sachs took a formidable 31-sec. lead...