Word: roald
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...then give it a powerful boost into higher orbit. Declared NASA'S Frosch: "The obstacles involved were insurmountable, in the time remaining." Russian scientists, in effect, agree, although they note that if plans for a cooperative effort had been started two years ago, a rescue might have been possible. Roald Sagdoyev, director of the Institute of Space Research of the Soviet Academy of Sciences, told TIME: "All the operations needed to give Skylab an additional impulse could have been made within the limits of existing rocket and space technology?either American or Soviet." The U.S., he said, could have helped...
Scott (Arthur Hill) will not permit the use of Huskies (though his Norwegian rival Roald Amundsen, played by Michael Higgins, does) on the ground that it is unsporting. Offstage, the blizzards howl like the piercing moans of the damned...
...managing editor who once spotted a mathematical error in an Albert Einstein lecture that the Times was about to print. Einstein gratefully acknowledged the mistake. Van Anda also had an eye for circulation-building stunts, such as the Times's sponsorship of polar expeditions by Commodore Robert Peary and Roald Amundsen...
...Soil erosion in the coming windy months is also a threat throughout the farm belt. Grain farmers want more snow, not less, to blanket and insulate the ground -and provide moisture in the spring. Livestock herds are being sold off as feed costs rise. Things are so bad that Roald Lund, a North Dakota agriculture expert, suggested that farmers should simply take a holiday...
...Great God! This is an awful place. " So wrote the English explorer Robert Falcon Scott after he reached the South Pole in 1912. Scott, who was just beaten to the pole by the Norwegian Roald Amundsen, had good reason to complain. Temperatures regularly drop to -100º F. during the polar winter. Sudden storms bring gale-force winds, and visibility frequently drops to zero during a "whiteout," making it impossible to see perilous crevasses ahead. Yet in spite of its hostile environment, Antarctica is becoming the object of increasing worldwide interest. Its shrimplike krill and millions of seals make...