Word: sun
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...course of its troubled flights, Skylab crews established an endurance record of 84 days in space?a mark since surpassed by Soviet cosmonauts. More than 50 scientific, technical and medical experiments were conducted. Some 183,000 unprecedented pictures of the sun were snapped through Skylab's telescope...
...thinks it will land in the Atlantic Ocean. He added, "I think it's a crying shame that it has to come down before scheduled. Solar flares expanded the atmosphere and the air molecules accelerated Skylab's descent. It shows that we don't know everything about the sun...
...before the latest oil crisis broke, and Jimmy Carter took the occasion to combine it with a state visit to Japan. For three days, while diplomats maneuvered in the back rooms, the President patiently went through the ceremonial rituals of such a visit?reviewing troops under a broiling Tokyo sun; chatting amiably with Marine Biologist Hirohito about scuba diving; attending a Kabuki play; lunching with 125 top celebrities of Japan, including Home Run King Sadaharu Oh, at the Imperial Palace. Jittery police cleared the streets of spectators for most of the President's trips around Tokyo, but Carter did journey...
...small and lived here, we didn't have any electricity and we didn't have any telephone." Franklin, a businessman and farmer, remembered that their mother liked to buy Wedgwood in the neighboring village. None, somehow, spoke at first of the overpowering father figure for whom the sun set at Campobello when he contracted polio and then rose again when he hobbled away-from it and them-to become the only four-term U.S. President...
...edict has also raised complaints from engineers. Merely setting the thermostat at 80° F, they argue, may actually waste energy. Many air-conditioning systems have not been designed to work efficiently and humidify properly at such levels. Matters are further complicated by "the solar load": as the sun moves around the building, room temperatures inside can rise by as much as 5° F. "You can't just set office thermostats like you do those in a home," explains Larry Wethers, a building-systems assistant for Chicago's 110-story Sears Tower, which has some...