Word: skins
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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When the first human rides into space and reaches 80 miles up, he will hear alarming sounds: the sharp pings of cosmic dust particles hitting the skin of his capsule. Harvard Astronomer Professor Fred L. Whipple last week told an Air Force space conference at San Antonio that the earth is surrounded by a shallow but unexpectedly dense cloud of dust that can be detected only by the noise that it makes when it hits space vehicles equipped with listening devices...
Expedition! (ABC, 7-7:30 p.m.).* Skin-divers on the floor of the eastern Mediterranean explore a ship that went down 1,000 years before the birth of Christ...
...floor at his feet, under thick layers of cobwebs and dust, was the shriveled body of a woman, partly covered with a moth-eaten blanket and the decayed remnants of a blue dressing gown. The skull was bare of hair, the eye sockets were hollow, and the skin was parched to the color of dark leather and hard as rock. Beside the body lay an empty bottle of disinfectant...
...modify them under pressure of the big union that went out on strike. Said G.E. Chief Negotiator Philip D. Moore: "Carey is looking for one concession which he can represent as a great victory that he wrung out of the company. He is a master at taking the skin from a gnat and stretching it over a boxcar. Well, he's not going to get a concession from...
...grow again. Kidney cells grew into a tiny kidney that seemed to be trying to purify the blood of a nonexistent chick. Liver cells developed into a miniature liver one-fifth of an inch long and apparently able to secrete bile to digest a chick's food. The skin cells arranged themselves into a sheet, produced sprouting feathers about one-tenth of an inch long...