Word: strips
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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There will be other innovations. In line with NASA's new policy of allowing frivolous radio call names for spacecraft, the Apollo 10 crew has decided to call the command module "Charlie Brown" and the lunar module "Snoopy," after the characters in the Charles Schulz comic strip...
...Charger R/T, Mercury the "Cyclone Spoiler." Externally, the cars are distinguishable by their fat, pavement-gripping tires and often by air scoops that bulge over the hood or sides. To be truly eligible for the club, a muscle car must be able to race down a quarter-mile strip of pavement from a standing start in under 15 seconds...
Taking the Temperature. It is a popular achievement. The modern counterpart of the pool shark is a kid in a hopped-up car, cruising the hamburger joints along New Jersey's U.S. 1 or the Strip in Beverly Hills, looking for a competitor with whom he can drag race for money. For most buyers, however, the appeal is only psychological: few ever utilize the full potential of their machines. The kick they want is a sense of power and a feeling of youthfulness...
...pack, a plastic tent, a sleeping bag, and a huge, double-edged Pulaski ax or shovel and climbed into a rickety DC-3. The air was so filled with smoke that for much of the flight, the men could barely see the wing tips. At the bush landing strip, they saw sooty veterans who had been swinging their axes for 15 hours a day, lying exhausted in the shrubs or simply staring at the clean newcomers...
...horror. Sargent Shriver escaped last spring after four high-pressure years, and President Johnson never formally nominated a replacement. The post seemed even less promising under the new Administration. OEO was a favorite target of Candidate Nixon, and one of the new President's first deeds was to strip the antipoverty agency of its major programs, including Head Start and the Job Corps. It was no wonder that Nixon was unable to find a new director for three months...