Word: sharing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Better Photography. Though Aldrin had fewer troubles than earlier space walkers, Gemini 12 itself had more than its share of minor problems. One by one, during the flight, four of Gemini's 16 thrusters failed. Two of the craft's six fuel-cell stacks went dead, and excess water produced by the others threatened to flood the entire power system. To make room for the excess fuel-cell water, which is impure, the astronauts were asked to consume more than their planned ration of drinking water and ran short on the last day of the flight...
Haute Cuisine Turkey. For all their new-found epicureanism, Americans are not about to fiddle with their traditional Thanksgiving menu. Julia is as patriotic as the rest, but she cannot resist giving her Thanksgiving a French accent. The turkey she and Paul will share with her sister-in-law in Bucks County, Pa., is called dindon demi-désossé (see diagram). To make it easier to carve, the upper part of the rib cage is removed before roasting. She plans to use a sausage and bread-crumb dressing (rough measurement is I cup of dressing for each pound...
Slow Trio. Some strange things are happening in the nation's most influential industry. G.M. has actually increased its share of the industry's sales, from 50.1% a year ago to 51.3% last month, but its volume is down because of a 10% lag in its Chevrolet Division, which accounts for half its output...
...lead over its newer rival, Douglas' DC-8. Now, Boeing services include free computer studies made by a 100-man staff of airline industry analysts. If requested, says Boeing Marketing Director George R. Sanborn, the studies will show "how an airline should go about getting a maximum share of the market away from a competitor"-using Boeings, of course...
...revved up its relations with the Pentagon, which stunned Boeing by awarding the TFX (now F-lll) fighter to General Dynamics in 1962 and the giant C-5A cargo plane to Lockheed last year. Boeing's massive research and development program should help it to capture a bigger share of aerospace and defense work. Among the potential $1 billion-plus projects up for grabs: the AMSA (advanced manned strategic aircraft) bomber project...