Word: soaring
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...dime, the three afternoon dailies collectively lost a 333,000 paid readership -only 46,000 of which has come back. After the city's 114-day newspaper strike last winter, another 500,000 buyers disappeared for good. If prophecies about the Mirror prove true, the total loss will soar past...
When the Conquistadors came in 1519, they hoped to found not just a colony but a New Spain. Instead, the Mexicans absorbed the Spaniards. The viceroy took the place of Montezuma; Christ became the altar ego of the god Quetzalcoatl, the plumed serpent and savior who can both soar like a bird and slither like a snake. In 17th century crucifixes by Indian artisans, Christ's body does not hang upon the Cross, but becomes part of it, styled after pre-Columbian pieces in which animals and human figures became part of the pottery. In one oil, a viceroy...
...Kyoto radio station reported that the bird traveled "with fair speed" but at "a very low altitude." Warned of its approach, crowds gathered is a city part to watch the Ibis soar overhead, and an American tourist managed to snap a picture of it as it past his hotel window. Latest reports from Japan said the Ibis was flying West, toward the Asiatic mainland...
Tricky Rendezvous. Other engineering ifs proliferate. The moon project as it is now planned includes a rendezvous in lunar orbit, during which a small spacecraft that has landed on the moon will soar up and mate with a main spacecraft orbiting overhead. The problems involved are all but incredible. No space vehicles have yet accomplished rendezvous, even in earth orbit with bases near by and massive, quick-witted computers on hand to do their navigation. The Russians may have at least attempted the trick, but the U.S. has not, and it will not even make its first try until...
...House-approved totals, the Senate committee added $60 million for developing a mobile ballistic missile to be fired from a tracked vehicle, $6.7 million for the National Guard, $23 million for military communications satellites. The Senate bill included $125 million for research on the RS-70 bomber and Dyna-Soar projects, and $322 million for test-model work on the TFX fighter. It may come up for a Senate vote this week...