Word: transiting
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Navy's radar scanners stationed at Dahlgren, Va., tracking a mouse is easy-if it is the right breed of mouse. Their latest achievement: spotting a speck of debris from the Transit II-A satellite, launched June 22, still floating 400 miles in space. The bits and pieces have been identified as a de-spin weight, about the size of two clenched fists, dangling at the end of an 8^½ft. braided cable a little thinner than a pencil. Hardly visible to the eye at 100 yds., its electrical properties make it easily spotted by radar...
...existing programs were changed. The Army will continue with its Advent communications satellite; the Navy will stick with its Transit navigation satellite. And each service, in Pentagon parlance, will have "the right to think," to do research on the problems of putting its weapons .into space. But from now on, the Air Force is boss of the big boosters that make military space ventures possible...
...from which Antoine Gizenga's forces now controlled large sections of the Congo's vast interior. The route, apparently, was via Cairo and Gamal Abdel Nasser's high flying four-engined Ilyushins; Britain had received assurances from the Sudan that it would continue to forbid overland transit, but there was little the Sudanese could do about those mysterious south bound contrails occasionally spotted at 30,000 feet and higher...
...will provide its own off street parking and in addition will house on the ground level an off street loading area for MTA buses, connected underground with the rapid transit line, thus eliminating two major sources of congestion from the streets, namely the buses themselves and pedestrians transferring from one line to another...
...year for college housing loans, $650 million a year for urban renewal, big subsidies for low-income housing, a step-up in Federal Housing Administration authorizations and liberalized terms, a new Cabinet-level Department of Housing and Urban Development, a loan fund for suburban planning, aid for mass transit, etc. Cost of the package: not disclosed...