Word: sightedly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...rolls over everything in sight...
...school integration has been remarkably effective: only 21% of the 2,980,000 Negro school children in eleven Southern states actually sat in classrooms last year with whites. As the school year began last week, however, that kind of tokenism showed evidence of crumbling, and its end seemed in sight...
Goof on the Ground. In other technical areas, Gemini had at least one negative aspect. Instead of touching down last week within sight of the carrier Lake Champlain as planned, the astronauts fell short by 103 miles. Investigators at the Manned Spaceflight Center in Houston soon traced the trouble: human error on the ground, not in space. One of the controllers at Houston had fed incorrect information to the big computer system on the ground, which in turn relayed the wrong re-entry calculations to the shoe-box-sized computer aboard Gemini 5. Said Howard W. Tindall Jr., mission-planning...
Unlike regular TV, Videx does not require line-of-sight transmission, and it uses more compact equipment than ordinary TV. Banks are already employing the system to flash check signatures from branches to the main office for verification. The U.S. Weather Bureau sends weather maps and charts by Videx. The military has it too, but keeps the secrecy...
...there, last year, at a brief, carefully chaperoned meeting, that Ruth met Reb Blau. Apparently, it was love at first sight. Ruth shyly told the shadchan: "I'd be greatly honored if he would accept me as his wife." Blau himself was all for it, but when news of their betrothal got out, members of the Neturei Karta were horrified that he should even think of marrying a shikse (Gentile), even if she was a convert who shaved her head and kept it covered in anticipation of the marriage...