Word: rocketted
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Neil Sedaka: Sedaka's Back (Rocket). As an early '60s teen-age idol of prom crowds in strapless formals and ducktail haircuts, Sedaka wrote more than 75 top ten hits. Then the Beatles squeezed out shooby-dooby, and Sedaka slipped into obscurity. In his first U.S. album in twelve years, he retains his cozy, cheerful style; yet his songs dig deeper. Laughter in the Rain is already a hit, and Solitaire and Standing on the Inside have high musical polish...
Measured against the cumbersome style of their European teammates, even minor masters of the U.S. playgrounds look like Earl Monroe. It does wonders for their confidence. "I wasn't very happy in Houston," says George Johnson, a former Rocket who now plays in Italy. "I wasn't playing my best ball. Now I feel I'm playing to my full potential...
From the beginning, Horowitz wanted to be an engineer. He liked figuring out how gadgets worked, and improving them. While other would-be geniuses were building rockets that looked like real missiles down to the decals, that spun into the sky spitting fire from their bottoms, Horowitz and his brother realized that without a guidance system a rocket had to be pulled, not pushed, to fly straight. So they mounted their home-made engines at the front of long rods, like the old Chinese fireworks, and sure enough, they went straight up. Horowitz took photographs to prove...
...every car and tractor, in every tank and plane?oil. Behind almost every lighted glass tower, giant industrial plant or little workshop, computer and moon rocket and television signal?oil. Behind fertilizers, drugs, chemicals, synthetic textiles and thousands of other products?the same substance that until recently was taken for granted as a seemingly inexhaustible and obedient treasure. Few noted the considerable historic irony that the world's most advanced civilizations depended for this treasure on countries generally considered weak, compliant and disunited. Now all that has changed, and the result has been a major economic and political dislocation throughout...
Terrorist Bomb. The Israelis were back attacking Lebanon last week, this time destroying houses in the village of Majdal al Zoun and taking Lebanese prisoners back to Israel with them. Hours later, the fedayeen retaliated by staging a rocket and grenade attack on an Israeli border kibbutz in eastern Galilee. At week's end, a terrorist bomb exploded in a police car in downtown Jerusalem, wounding 13 people...