Word: sighting
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Wald will conduct research on the eye-sight of fish at the Woods Hole laboratories during the summer. In September he will go to Cambridge, England, where he will write and continue his experiments. Before returning to Woods Hole for the summer, 1964, he plans a two-month visit to Stazione Zoologica, the world's leading marine station, in Naples, Italy...
Rendezvous. Gemini's primary purpose is to practice rendezvous in earth orbit, a job of navigation and maneuver that will be controlled largely by ground-based computers. Only after the Gemini capsule and its target satellite have come within sight or radar range of each other will the pilot take charge. Even then a small computer will tell him how to make the two courses intersect. During the final approach, he will really "fly" the capsule. When sufficient experience has been accumulated, he will mate capsule with target, perhaps orbiting with it and taking advantage of its fuel stores...
...impress "on this Society the necessity of minding the pianos and fortes which have always been treated with more or less contempt in this Society." Not so Friday evening: Dr. Henry Swoboda, in his first Cambridge appearance, and a new, bigger-than-ever HRO, gave their audience the sight and sound of a professional symphony orchestra...
Australia's gallant sailors were hardly out of sight before another nation challenged the U.S. for the America's Cup, international yachting's oldest and most prized trophy. Having tried and failed 16 times in the past in years, Britain wanted to race again-and the sooner the better. To the New York Yacht Club went a formal challenge from London's Royal Thames Yacht Club proposing a race next summer. One new British 12-meter yacht was already abuilding in Scotland (her designer: David Boyd, who also designed the ill-starred Sceptre, which lost four...
After the war Milner really got rolling. Going into surplus vehicle sales, he scoured Mississippi for veterans' priority certificates, was able to buy up equipment that could be sold at a tidy profit. Next, he set up as a car and truck importer, bought sight unseen a shipload of tractors for $833,000, which he did not have. Before the ship docked, Milner had sold the tractors for $998,000. Eventually, he acquired four Chevrolet agencies and one Pontiac dealership, and became one of G.M.'s biggest-volume dealers...