Word: sures
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...went straight to the nation's leading authority on inertial guidance. The system devised by Draper for Apollo includes telescopes, a sextant, and a computerized inertial reference "platform" that tells astronauts where they are in space, where they are headed and how fast. But how could they be sure that it would work?, the NASA brass wanted to know. "I told them I'd go along and run it myself," recalls Draper. The on-board navigation systems have proved so accurate that, if they had to, the crew of Columbia could fly to the moon and back without...
...only exceptions, it was thought, were bizarre and inexplicable cases, such as the Indian yogis, who can regulate their heart beat and their breathing. Now, though, experimental psychologists have proved that the body's autonomic system can, in fact, be taught-although as yet they are not sure...
Devil by the Tail, as in his previous films, the French director bends the truth but never quite breaks it, and makes sure that even during its wildest moments his comedy keeps a straight face...
...west out highway 80 towards Selma, Alabama, cruising into the sunset. Every town we passed through had been the scene of adventures four years earlier when I had been on the Courier. I remember that every time we went out to dig up information on a story I was sure we were going to be shot. Civil Rights workers were murdered all the time in '66. A lady from Detroit, Mrs. Luizzo, had been killed in 1965 near Selma for riding in a car with some Negro guys. On my first story for the Courier, I and another guy were...
...sure is mighty...