Word: skies
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Dicke" faces a similar problem in a more domestic area, that of social security. German wages have sky-rocketed in the past few years, and a good part of the increases have been due to the benefits received by every German laborer and low-income white collar employee. Welfare payments comprise about 20 per cent of the German national income; in the United States, they are only 6 per cent. The worker is so pampered, in fact, that the Socialists began looking for other issues long...
Slowly the giant jet taxied into the darkness beyond the floodlit operations building at Bergstrom Air Force Base, Texas. At the edge of a runway it paused, shuddered with the full power of its four jets, then roared into the starry Texas sky to begin a nonstop, 5,600-mile hop to West Germany. Thus, one balmy night last week, "Operation Big Lift" got under...
...Stars. Physicist Riccardo Giacconi, who had planned the experiment along with Herbert Gursky and Frank Paolini of American Science & Engineering, Inc. in Cambridge, Mass., waited impatiently for the next X-ray measuring rocket. When that rocket was fired aloft last October, though, its instruments viewed another part of the sky; they did not record what was going on in Scorpio. They did report on two weaker X-ray sources, and their findings suggested that the original, strong X-ray source was probably located far out in space, beyond the reaches of the solar system, wheeling around the earth with...
...high-level argument cannot get much farther until more is known about the X-ray sky. American Science & Engineering is already planning to fire rockets to look for X rays of longer wave length, and it has a contract totaling more than $1,000,000 with the National Aeronautics and Space Administration to put improved X-ray instruments on satellites. Other X-ray sources will probably be found, and Professor Rossi for one thinks that X-ray astronomy may eventually prove as important as radio astronomy. It may be that charged particles blown out of the sun knock soft...
...into the adjoining corridor. The museum's own greenhouse supplies flowers for special seasonal arrangements: the courtyard glows with poinsettas at Christmas, bursts with lilies at Easter. The court seems more peaceful than the rest of the museum: its walks are symetrical and its walls rise gracefully to a sky-light...