Word: roth
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Soviets' Cosmos 61 shot whirled out of space, NORAD's cameras, radar network and computer banks watched the descending debris until it was finally incinerated in the atmosphere. Other eyes also followed its fiery fall. Using NORAD data dubbed TIP (for Target Impact Point), Herbert E. Roth, a Denver-based jet-training planner for United Air Lines, operates a unique one-man satellite-early-warning system. It alerts commercial airline pilots to the possibility of space debris hurtling across their flight paths...
Growing Hobby. Collision danger, to be sure, is still remote, but Roth figures that precaution is called for. Five years ago, as head of the Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory's Denver Moonwatch Team, he became interested in the problems of satellite reentry. To help scientists predict the debris' drop more precisely, he organized flight crews into the Voluntary Flight Officer Network and asked them to report all satellite sightings...
Originally a hobby, the network has grown far beyond Roth's expectations. The shower from space has increased, and, with United picking up the tab, Roth has stepped up his activities. He now publishes advance word of the time and place of satellite re-entries in a weekly bulletin that goes out to 118 airlines in the U.S. and abroad...
...still a rough art. Depending on its size, shape and density, as well as atmospheric conditions, a satellite or other piece of space hardware can plunge down on a steep trajectory, glide relatively slowly through the air, or skip along like a pebble across water. To assure accuracy, Roth gets updated calculations from NORAD two or three hours before an expected re-entry and flashes out a final warning over United's communications setup...
Portnoy's Complaint, newest novel by Philip Roth, 35, won't hit the stalls for another seven months, yet about half of its 80,000 words have already been quoted by four national publications. And pretty lively they are too: explicitly detailing Portnoy's super sex life from toilet training through masturbation and on to intercourse, intercourse, intercourse, all told in the form of monologues delivered by a Jewish boy to his psychoanalyst. With that kind of copy and more to come, no wonder Random House has given Roth a $250,000 advance for the book...