Word: shots
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...successful shot of the Explorer satellite got the U.S. into space, but last week was the week that space got down to the U.S. In Congress, in the White House, at the Pentagon, in politics, diplomacy and planning, space lost its otherworldly quality, was folded into the everyday processes of government...
...news that Mrs. Ronald Dean had shot and killed her 29-year-old Air Force technical sergeant husband in his parents' home near Oil City, Pa. shocked the members of that town's Optimist Club. It also shocked the club's happy, do-gooding ladies' auxiliary, a group called the Opti-Mrs. Together, they decided to help Lydia Dean. They passed the hat, ran notices in the newspapers, collected a defense fund of more than $2,000 from as far away as Florida. By the time the trial began in Venango County a fortnight...
...parents in Shamburg. Lydia and Dean wrote faithfully to each other for about a year. Then Dean stopped writing. When he returned to the U.S. four months later, he called Lydia, announced that he had got an English girl pregnant, wanted a divorce. Six days later Dean was shot and killed by a bullet from an old Army Springfield rifle...
...that at the age of eight opened his "third eye," giving him, in addition to clairvoyant and telepathic powers, the ability to diagnose a person's state of health and humor from his "aura" (a cleaning man in a temper looked like "a figure smothered in blue smoke, shot through with flecks of angry red"). This was a mere overture to a long vaudeville show of astonishment presented in Rampa's account of his Tibetan life, The Third Eye (Doubleday; $3.50). Other attractions included levitation, riding in kites ("horrible swayings and bobbings did unpleasant things to my stomach...
...industry producing possibly 95 million kw. of nuclear power by 1980, or 25% of the estimated total power demands of the U.S. But U.S. industry is learning, to its sorrow, that there is a vast gulf between atomic power in the lab and in commercial quantities. Costs have shot up to the point where they discourage even the richest companies...