Word: soar
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...manned space flight. Next week, his lean body practically unchanged by the passage of years, the same pioneering astronaut will command NASA's fourth manned assault on the moon. At the age of 47, Captain Alan B. Shepard Jr. is the oldest American* ever to soar into space, the only one of the original Mercury astronauts still on flight status and clearly one of the comeback heroes of all time. In 1963, after he had been selected to pilot one of the early Gemini flights, Shepard was dropped from space flight and barred even from flying except when accompanied...
Buyers of Fannie Mae stock have been gambling that interest rates will continue to fall. Even a modest ½% to 1% drop in the rate that the corporation pays for its funds could cause profits to soar. Reason: Fannie Mae borrows short but lends long. By issuing three-year debentures last week, for example, the corporation borrowed $500 million at an interest rate of 5¾%, the lowest in more than two years. Meanwhile, Fannie Mae will be collecting income on a huge bundle of recently written mortgages-many of them paying 8½%- that run for 30 years. "Fannie...
...hold hack licenses and moonlight as cabbies. In addition, cops drive decoy cabs, and squad cars often follow taxis into high-crime areas. In some cities, a few cabs are equipped with police radios. Despite these measures, the cab crime rate in New York City has continued to soar. As one police official says: "Taxis are just an easy mark." So is the taxi passenger. Installing lockboxes on all New York's cabs will cost an estimated $468,000-and both Mayor Lindsay and fleet owners hint that a fare increase will be needed...
...becomes even more extraordinary. At an altitude of 44 miles the mother ship unleashes its offspring; then, guided by a two-man crew, it dives back toward earth, using auxiliary jet engines and stubby, finlike wings to touch down like an ordinary aircraft. The smaller rocket ship continues to soar until it reaches a "parking" orbit about 115 miles high. After a single swing around the earth, it resumes its climb, gingerly approaches its target, and then docks with a huge, slowly rotating space station. Once the passengers -several scientists and engineers, two Congressmen, a doctor and a journalist -have...
...Apollo 13's oxygen tank. The blast was apparently caused by the failure of two thumbnail-sized automatic switches that are designed to shut off the oxygen tank's internal heater if its temperature rises above 80° F. Tests showed that the temperature, if unchecked, could soar as high as 1,000° and cause the electrical insulating material to flake off. The arcing that results can ignite the insulation. Heat from the fire expands the compressed semiliquid oxygen, and its pressure eventually increases enough to burst the tank. The safety switches were apparently damaged when...