Word: spotting
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Lunik II undoubtedly blasted a crater, which Kuiper estimates as about 100 ft. in diameter with walls 10 ft. high. If such a crater happened to be in a smooth place, it should be detectable by a powerful telescope, under ideal conditions, as a faint bright spot. If the Lunik crater were inside a big crater or in a jumble of craters, it would probably not be visible...
...wake of the Russian moon triumph, U.S. spacemen had two failures and one success last week. A Jupiter rocket blew up, and a Thor Able navigation satellite failed to orbit. The bright spot was the last of the much-criticized Vanguards, which put a 50-lb. payload in a high orbit expected to last 30 years or more...
...worse, and they may never get better, for the idea of recruiting a solid tackle or slithering halfback is out of the question. But the U.S. Coast Guard Academy's new coach was content. "Believe me," said Otto Graham, "I couldn't have picked out a better spot if I had sat down and studied offers for two or three years...
...some two dozen newsmen on the spot in Laos last week, the assignment was a new lesson in frustration. As unprepared for the visitors as it was for Communist invaders, the tiny, remote and primitive Asian kingdom scarcely knew what to do with either. In Samneua province, scene of some of the fiercest skirmishing, a native cable-office employee stopped reporters on the street to inquire: "What should I do with this?" It was a cable handed him a week earlier by CBS Correspondent Peter Kalischer. The surest way to get anything resembling an accurate story was to make...
...Harvard was a considerably less genteel spot than the College rules would lead one to expect. For amusement, almost every undergraduate joined a club, and these existed often only for bacchanalian orgies. The best remembered organization of the period was the "Med. Fac.," which Quincy unsuccessfully tried to suppress in 1834. Secret meetings of the Med. Fac. were highlighted by libations from a silver chamber-pot or by hazing of unknowing freshmen; the administration railed against the breeches of discipline this body created, but did not suppress it until this century...