Word: rendezvouses
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∙In the U.S., the mood was the spirit of the wild black yonder as the seven Mercury Astronauts, after rigorous physical and psychological tests, were presented to the public with the promise that one of them will be space-bound in two years. See NATIONAL AFFAIRS, Rendezvous with Destiny...
Academic assistance is a two-way street. Widener Reading Room has provided the scene for many inexpensive rendezvous meetings justified by the desire for scholarship. Harvard students cannot justify the Cliffies' higher marks on the basis of assistance rendered, since the assistance is just as likely to come in the...
As the broad-beamed U.S. Navy missile-test ship Norton Sound pulled away from her dock at Port Hueneme, Calif, shortly after dusk one day last August, a dockhand bellowed to Captain Arthur Gralla, the skipper: "What time tomorrow ya coming back, captain?" Yelled Gralla in reply: "I'll...
By pushing Norton Sound at 95% of full power, even through the iceberg-menaced waters around Cape Horn, Captain Gralla reached the South Atlantic rendezvous three days ahead of schedule. Picking up first the Falkland Islands and then Tarawa on radar, he radioed a signal: "Dr. Livingstone, I presume?" Replied...
Last week the London County Council approved a radical plan for the reconstruction of Piccadilly Circus, the proud "hub of the universe." The hub has become a traffic block. To solve this problem, the circus (or circle) will be made into a rectangle, and the Edwardian buildings now surrounding it...