Word: smoothly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...even that faint feedback carries a definite message. If the signals bounce back polarized-in other words, with their electric fields reversed-they indicate rough terrain. Unpolarized echoes, on the other hand, mean smooth surfaces. In either case, the target areas are pinpointed by a system of coordinates similar to latitude and longitude. One coordinate is located simply by clocking the signal: the quicker it bounces back, the closer the bounce-back point is to that part of Venus nearest to Earth...
...REEVES: A TOUCH OF SADNESS (RCA Victor). His records still sell as if he had not died in a plane crash four years ago. And no wonder. Reeves had an infallible touch with old-style ballads, a combination of smooth virility and naivete that inspires a secret smile of empathy in most listeners. This disk is one more of his innumerable posthumous albums, but it includes hitherto unreleased recordings of such ballads as Lonesome Waltz and Your Wedding...
...mini-carrier, the landing area is invisible to the pilot, who must rely on hand signals from one of the boat's seven-man crew. Meanwhile, the boat's captain maneuvers his vessel under the skids of the descending helicopter. The air-sea mating has become a smooth routine. In more than 2,000 landings, there has yet to be a serious mishap...
...holding pattern, popped his dive brakes, flattened out and bored straight for J.F.K. We flat-hatted over Long Island, made a sharp turn to a little-used runway and touched down at about 220 m.p.h.-much faster than the Boeing 707's 175-m.p.h. landing speed-and as smooth as butter...
...texture and pattern that it serves as antidote to the asphalt rather than continuation." Therefore the traffic islands ought to be paved with one of the many available materials which are at once visually interesting, less heat retentive than macadam and as or more functional and durable. Alternations of smooth and rough concrete, granite, cobblestones, bricks and fieldstone offer endless possibilities for pleasing surfaces and patterns...