Word: spacing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Washington, a member of the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System; Elliot L. Richardson '41 of Boston, Attorney General of Massachusetts; Robert C. Seamans '40 of Cambridge, Visiting Professor of Aeronautics and Astronautics and of Management at M.I.T. and a Consultant to the National Aeronautics and Space Administration; William Davis Taylor '31 of Boston, Publisher, Chairman of the Board and General Manager of the Boston Globe; and Theodore H. White '38, of New York, writer. Each was elected to a six-year term expiring in June...
Before making a lunar landing, space experts say, the Soviets will probably want to test two techniques that they have not yet attempted: 1) manned rendezvous and docking in space, and 2) an unmanned soft landing on the moon. Unmanned Russian spacecraft have twice rendezvoused and docked auto matically in earth orbit, but the technique would be far more difficult near the moon, 240,000 miles away from terrestrial control stations. And the Russians have yet to demonstrate a soft-landing system as reliable as the one that lowered five U.S. Surveyor spacecraft gently to the lunar surface...
...altered. Fearful of being able to fill 490 economy seats-and of running their present jet fleets out of business-the airlines have all but abandoned the cheap-fare concept. To fill planes at current fares, many are opting for 350-seat layouts and devoting the rest of the space to such frills as 71-ft. movie screens and a "penthouse lounge" that converts to two twin-bed staterooms...
...story, cold-warring Russia and the U.S., after inadvertently eradicating all life from the British Isles, join in recreating Merry England with fake issues of the London Times and fond memories of Robin Hood. In another, a cuckolded space scientist packages his wife as condensed food for a Mars-bound astronaut, who has already enjoyed her in other ways...
Morea reaches out a hand as if asking for help and says, "Some of these kids won't live a few more years. We need some space to work things...