Word: segments
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Instrument packages from high-flying rockets are sometimes dropped by parachute, and to keep them from drifting out of reach, Sandia Corp. is developing a homing parachute controlled by a small radio. When the radio locates the proper impact area, air is automatically spilled from the proper segment of the parachute to make it slant toward a convenient landing...
When spacecraft are fired from Cape Canaveral, recovery of the segment that returns to earth often becomes a full-dress Navy spectacular. Destroyers, carriers, airplanes and helicopters scout hundreds of miles of ocean to pull an encapsuled astronaut out of the drink or save a set of valuable instruments. But such shows are so costly that they are attempted only when the cargo that comes back from space is especially important. Most of the Cape's missiles and satellites deliver all their information by radio and are abandoned when they...
Other voices began to be heard. To New York Times Washington Bureau Chief James Reston, a Kennedy supporter, it seemed particularly ridiculous that the President should bother to pop off at any segment of a press that has generally been more than kind. ("Never in recent American history has such a humiliating blunder as Cuba been passed over so lightly.") In the New York Daily News, Capital Columnist Ted Lewis urged Kennedy admirers to forgive Kennedy's "petulant purge." Said Lewis: "The man in the White House is overburdened. His problems frustrate him, for none of the big ones...
...last week Nixon was in a desperate battle for Governor of California, and one of the most dangerous threats to his candidacy comes from a sizable segment of home-state Republicans...
...adapt quickly to the land so many had defended and so few had seen. Though members of a Hindu sect that sanctions polygamy, few brought even one wife. Their greatest thrill was watching TV, which they had never seen before. The Gurkhas in fact were possibly the only segment of Britain's TV audience that expressed no indignation at the parade of violence on their screens. Though it was plainly this side of heaven, they thought it exhilarating...