Word: skies
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...came fully awake to the fact that its normal best in the cold war is no longer good enough. The U.S. satellite test vehicle, reaching for the sky and falling flat on its pad, was a symbol of the old standards: a hurry-up effort to answer moons with a moon, klaxons of witless pressagentry and, after the flop, yelps of anguish (cried Senate Majority Leader Lyndon Johnson: "How long, how long, O God, how long will it take us to catch up with Russia's two satellites?"). Yet even if Vanguard had been successful in its first...
Uncle Sam thought of launching a Sputnik into the sky...
Last May the McCormicks invited 20 parents of precocious children to a meeting, suggested that they band together to start a school of their own for pupils with IQs of 135 or over. They picked the name Adastra, which Alma McCormick loosely translates as "the sky's the limit." They leased a two-story house on Division Street, persuaded fathers to donate equipment and mothers to help with the secretarial work, finally opened last fall with 13 children aged 3½ to nine. By last week the McCormicks had enough children on their waiting list to assure them...
...Where can you eat in the middle of an American highway? See BUSINESS, Pie in the Sky...
...last definite observation of the rocket was received by the radar telescope in Palo Alto, California early Saturday evening. At about the same time, a Smithsonian moonwatch team in Los Altos saw a bright object in the sky, which Whipple said, "could well have been the rocket starting to glow as it neared...