Word: takings
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Astronauts have never been known to send their compliments to the chef who dreams up the dehydrated and otherwise denaturalized chow that they take along in space. So it came as quite a surprise last Christmas Day when Apollo 8's Jim Lovell suddenly began radioing lavish thanks for his dinner. It was all a private joke, Command Pilot Frank Borman explained last week. What Lovell was giving thanks for were three 1-oz. bottles of brandy that had been smuggled aboard for the boys. Sad to say, Borman vetoed the libation, and it was locked...
...fuel probably gets an extra kick from a high-energy chemical additive, and the mighty engines can drive the SR-71 in a missile-like ballistic curve that takes the plane above 97% of the earth's atmosphere. Yet even in the rarefied upper atmosphere, the surface temperature of the plane's leading edges hits 630°, enough to heat the Blackbird's titanium skin to cherry-red incandescence. An intricate system of pumps and pipelines circulates fuel near enough to the skin to absorb heat and carry it to cooler parts of the plane where...
...changes range from diocesan government to such unusual subjects as the responsibility of individual Catholics to form their own attitudes on the morality of war. Dearden replaced his centralized chancery office with 25 regional vicariates, which will take care of the needs of the archdiocese's 1,500,000 Catholics. The vicars will have the wide powers once reserved to chancery specialists, leaving the archbishop freer for broader pastoral duties...
Roessel says he will start new courses in any subject requested by students. There will be no pressure to meet a rigid two-year junior college timetable. "We will tell them, 'take your time,' " Roessel says. " 'If you need three years, or four, use them.' " After the college moves from its temporary location to its new campus near Tsaile next year, it will expand its enrollment of 357 to accommodate 1,000 students...
...seems to have brought that new-found relaxation to the recording sessions in Nashville. None of the songs were written down; he had them all in his head, and before recording, would go over them in his soft-spoken way with a hand-picked crew of Nashville sidemen, taking suggestions occasionally from them, or showing them how it should go by playing the guitar or piano. Once the taping began, he was smooth and professional. "Some performers take all day to get a recording right," says Guitarist Pete Drake. "Dylan usually gets them on the first or second take...