Word: skies
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Little Falls, N.J.: a device that watches the ever constant stars and uses them to keep a spacecraft from losing its way. The device is deceptively simple in conception, but like most space hardware, it is complex in construction. Essentially, it is a mechanical eye that sweeps the sky and is rigged to notice only the 50 brightest stars. Its main working part is a small mirror that rotates inside a window, scanning narrow strips of black space. When the mirror's field of view crosses one of the 50 stars, a photocell reports the star's position...
radio telescope at Goldstone in the Mojave Desert beamed a burst of powerful microwaves at the sky. Then scientists from the Jet Propulsion Laboratory turned off their transmitter and switched on a sensitive receiver. Almost at once a glowing line on an oscilloscope screen broke into dancing ripples. The waves of the transmitter had traveled 60.5 million miles into space and bounced back from the tiny planet Mercury...
...sky is big and the mountains soaring - but a sad smallness of vision afflicts universities in the Rockies. To the west, in California, and to the east, in Minnesota, Illinois and Michigan, great state universities flourish; but in Montana, Idaho and Colorado, regents rave, professors quit, presidents vanish, and in consequence academic excellence seems forever elusive...
Sunday Night Movie (ABC, 8-10 p.m.). Subway in the Sky, with Van Johnson and Hildegarde Neff...
...negotiations and promised to reconsider Kurdish demands. In turn, the Kurds agreed to hold up hostilities. "We don't want the responsibility for starting the war again," said a Kurdish spokesman, "but we and the government are far apart. It's like the distance from ground to sky...