Word: tankfuls
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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EARLIER in the week, a liquid-hydrogen fuel tank had sprung a leak and threatened to delay the launch. Now, less than an hour before the late-morning blastoff, dark clouds rolled ominously across the last patches of blue in the Florida sky; a drizzling rain turned into a heavy downpour that virtually blotted pad 39A from view. But NASA officials, buoyed by a long string of space successes, were undaunted by the dangerous omens. The order was given to proceed. More reliable than any commuter train, the 11:22 moon rocket departed from Cape Kennedy. It was on schedule...
Customary Insouciance. There was still scattered terrorism in spite of the maneuvering in Cairo. Near Sidon, an oil-storage tank belonging to the TransArabian Pipe Line Co., a U.S. oil subsidiary, was spectacularly set ablaze. In Beirut, dynamite charges exploded harmlessly outside the Phoenicia Hotel and on Hamra, the principal shopping street. But in cities and refugee camps, riots and sniper attacks seemed to be abating, and discussions between Helou and Lebanese Moslem leaders replaced the angry recriminations of the week before...
...Pollution-Toward a Cleaner Car" [Oct. 17]: natural gas is certainly a clean-burning fuel. However, for automotive use it must be stored as a cryogenic (supercold) liquid in a large, well-insulated tank. Unfortunately, if you do not drive a large number of miles in a relatively short time, the liquefied natural gas boils off. If your car sits in the driveway for a few weeks while you're on vacation, you may return to find your fuel has evaporated. Not only is this bothersome and expensive, but I suspect this evaporated hydrocarbon fuel may pollute the atmosphere...
...economic system to control also the products of physical science, as the latter require great investments of time and capital for their production. Yet as the cost of any scientific object goes down, the Establishment monopoly on its use disappears. The government controls all domestic use of tanks, but we all have telephones. Now it is a fortunate property of social science that its discoveries are knowledge, not implements, and it is generally accepted in the profession of it that this knowledge is to be distributed without restriction to all who can make use of it. (Mr. Bruck acknowledges that...
Golda Meir's character, like that of the state of Israel, was shaped in the ghettos of Europe and drew on a heritage of two millennia of sorrow and insecurity. The essence of the woman is conviction, without compromise, and expressed with all the subtlety of a Centurion tank. She seldom loses an argument, and once, after a heated policy dispute, so unnerved Dayan that he felt obliged to ask before he left her office: "Do you still love me, Golda?" Her convictions extend to her personal life. She still refuses to ride in a German-made...