Word: slowed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Turn in Space. The Russians issued no explanation of how this was done. Easiest way is to turn the final-stage rocket in a desired direction by gyros or gas jets and then burn additional fuel to speed it up, slow it down or move it sideways. The necessary orders can be given by radio from the ground or by the rocket's own inertial guidance system. If the orders came from the ground, the problem was to get an accurate track of the rocket's course. The cloud of glowing sodium that the rocket released may have...
...Slow Burn. In Yorii, Japan, Mina Ogawa, 76, took belated revenge on her ex-fiance, Kinjyuro Oba, 83, who broke off their engagement 39 years ago, set fire to his house and destroyed...
...time allowances to boats that are theoretically slower. The hope was that it would allow boats designed for seaworthiness and family cruising to compete with racing machines. Bases for the formula were assumptions that were sacred 30 years ago: fast boats must have deep keels, tall masts, narrow beams; slow boats have the opposite...
...aircraft industry is under fire from all sides. British editorialists charge that companies are too conservative to press far-out research, too slow to push mergers that would give them greater resources to develop new products. The unions are also up in arms. Last week the British Association of Supervisory Staffs, Executives and Technicians issued a broadside that likened planes shown at Farnborough to "dashing debutantes at the Queen Charlotte Ball: one appearance in lights and white, followed by oblivion." The association blamed the industry's decline on "unparalleled government muddle, management inefficiency, and a seemingly complete disregard...
...closet, and goes courting, he has to determine whether the beautiful nymph will spend the rest of her life regaling him with choruses of La Vie En Rose, or be packed off on the next boat to Paris. Happily, the obviousness of this decision doesn't slow down the pace of the film...