Word: soft
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Cigar-Sized Jets. The first of seven unmanned Surveyors that Hughes Aircraft built at a cost of $420 million will make a soft landing on the moon early next year, bite into the moon's crust to determine whether it is soft or hard, then use a long-legged TV camera to show observers on earth how deeply it has sunk. After Surveyor reports, Grumman Aircraft's buglike Lunar Excursion Module, for which the company has received a $400 million contract, is expected to ferry two astronauts from the orbiting Apollo capsule for the U.S.'s first...
...Signoret, the countess. Simone has lived a lot and squints all the time because she finds it too painful to look wide-eyed at the world. At the same time, she is as cuddlesome as can be. When Werner says, "Some-times you're so bitter; then you're soft and warm as a child," she groans, "I'm just a woman...
...naive to soft-pedal the population explosion as "more myth than menace." "A modest growth of 18% per decade, one-half what it was 100 years ago," is not so benign. Eighteen percent of present population is 34.7 million; 36% of 1865 population is only 12.6 million...
...Twins beat Koufax in the second game-although he allowed only two runs. In the fifth game, Minnesota was lucky even to get a hit. Sandy retired twelve in a row before Harmon Killebrew dumped a soft liner into centerfield that Willie Davis misjudged and dropped. The scorers ruled it a hit, and everybody in Dodger Stadium groaned with anguish-everybody except Sandy Koufax. "Nice try, Willie," he yelled, with a big smile on his face...
...right places." U.S. consulates are widely praised for courtesy and efficiency. "If you want to know what's going on anywhere in Africa, ask at the American embassy," says a veteran European newsman who covers that continent. The American Legion, once prone to find State "soft on Communism," last year investigated and concluded that "the nation can place much confidence" in the department. State's people savor such compliments-because they have been accustomed to hearing memorably vivid criticism...