Word: space
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...have to go through five layers of executives to find a vice president on vacation in the Bahamas to get a decision." One example: when a partner in a North Sea drilling operation off Scotland last year decided to sell out, Hunt Oil purchased his 15% interest. "In the space of one week we bought in and were drilling," boasts Ray. The drills promptly struck a major pool estimated to contain as much as 500 million bbl. Says one crusty Texas oilman: "Dammit, he's got his father's luck...
...nation's celebrated top anchormen have held office, and popularity, for longer terms than Presidents. The fact is, their best qualities are only on stand-by reserve when they read the evening news. It is on other occasions-in knowledgeable ad-lib coverage of political conventions, space shots, presidential funerals-that they earn their spurs, their reputations, the trust of their viewers. Would Arledge himself be so dismissive of the anchoring role if ABC had Walter Cronkite and was No. 1 in the ratings? Arledge, though he professes to admire Reasoner's whimsical essays and Walters' interviews...
...dream of making space a routine human habitat took a dramatic leap toward reality last week. Like a fledgling leaving the nest for the first time, NASA's new space shuttle OV (for Orbiter Vehicle) 101 cut loose from the 747 mother ship and maneuvered safely to earth on its own. As NASA officials-and much of the nation via television-watched with ringers crossed, the shuttle, christened Enterprise after the spaceship in Star Trek, swooped in graceful arcs down through the clear desert air over Edwards Air Force Base in California. Then, as if both ship and crew...
...space shuttle safely finds its own way home...
Enterprise's stubby wings were carrying not only the promise of far easier access to space, its exploitation and, yes, even colonization, but the future of America's shrunken space program as well. Ever since the Apollo 17 mission put the last Americans on the moon more than four years ago, NASA has been slowly turning away from one-shot man-in-space spectaculars. Instead, it has been concentrating an increasing amount of research and money on development of the space shuttle, a "pickup truck" of a craft that could be shot into orbit, stop off with...