Word: shortly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...ground, where the Thor rocket has yet to prove its reliability. The probe should be launched only during the four days of the month when the moon is in the best position for tracking; if the rocket fizzles on the launching pad, another attempt must await the same short period next month. Even if the probe does get off on schedule, the perils of imprecision mount as the vehicle soars closer to the moon. The margin for error at the rendezvous point is about 30 minutes, and the slightest miscalculation in the rocket's fuel mixture could ruin...
...bazaars were half deserted in teeming Lucknow (pop. 500,000), capital of Uttar Pradesh province. Students stormed through the streets, set up loudspeakers outside the Council House, bombarded a captive audience of state legislators with fiery exhortations. On their way to another demonstration, a group collided head-on with short-tempered police: brickbats flew, steel-tipped lathis flailed, shots were fired. A passing water carrier was killed; the wounded totaled...
AIRLINE MERGER may be coming between Northeast (six-month loss: $3,283,533) and Capital (six-month loss: $728,611), would make economic sense by welding basically regional operators into combine of long-haul plus short-haul routes...
...money for Sears and other prospective private borrowers. As the price of Government bonds fell, their yields rose sharply. Last week a recent issue of long-term Government bonds paying a coupon rate of 3¼% was actually yielding more than 3⅝%. A recent issue of relatively short-term bonds with a 2⅝% coupon was yielding...
...lifelong busmen who had been passed over in favor of Genet in 1955. Ackerman knows that his toughest chore will be to put Greyhound Rent-A-Car on the road. "It has been a headache because of mistakes," says he. "We tried to do too much in too short a period without experience and competent...