Word: uled
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...historic national effort. Word went out to put an end to name-call ing. Even official labels had to be made more solemn. On the theory that Lunar Excursion Module (LEM) was too frivolous a name for the moon-landing craft, NASA gravely renamed it Lunar Mod ule, thus reducing the friendly LEM to the unpronounceable...
...into the earth's atmosphere, the craft is equipped with a swivel-mounted retrorocket, attitude-control jets, a transponder for ground control, a built-in oxygen supply, a parachute and a survival kit. Johnson envisions a typical Apollo spacecraft as carrying three such lifeboats in its service mod ule or equipment section...
Since watercolor is a quick medium, it appealed to him from the start because it fitted into his crowded sched ule. He also found that he could not tolerate the smell of turpentine nor the messiness of oils. Though watercolors lack the warmth of thicker media, Christ-Janer strives to enrich them. In pursuit of textural effects, he has experimented with polymer glues to bind his colors, sand or gravel sprinkled on to give them tactility and visual variety...
TIME believes that the new sched ule better fits the pattern of breaking news as well as the changing reading habits of the nation. Most news, except for disasters and other unexpected events, happens on the world's working days and tends to peak at the end of the week. So, the editors reasoned, it would be logical to put TIME "to bed" Saturday night, conduct most of the printing operation (already the fastest of its kind in the world) during the relatively quieter Sunday hours, and get the magazine to its readers earlier...