Word: vacuums
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...matter of progress. These days, when everything is vacuum-packed, cellophane-wrapped or synthetically concocted, nothing smells the way it used to. The coffee or cinnamon buns that stay freshest don't smell at all. Gasoline companies add so many "super" compounds that even regular doesn't smell regular any more. Once a knitting-mill operator finishes treating a sweater with chemicals so that it will keep its shape, it doesn't smell like wool...
...election talk went on, a lot of Canadians were tiring of Pearson's game. "If Mr. Pearson does not have serious and clear views on whether there should be an election," said the Ottawa Journal, "he should conceal that ghastly vacuum in impressive silence." With that kind of sentiment growing and John Diefenbaker sharpening his sword, there was a chance that a fall election might leave Pearson little better off than he is right...
Doctor's Orders. The astronauts tended to their equipment that floated about weightless. When they dumped urine overboard, the particles froze in the cold vacuum and sparkled like a roman candle as they drifted by. The men tried to nap. But when one stirred in the cramped quarters, the other woke up. "We don't like to see them so fatigued at so early a point in the flight," said Dr. Charles Berry, chief space-flight surgeon. The doctor's orders: Get more sleep. "I try to," yawned Conrad, "but you guys keep giving us something...
...computer-controlled centrifuge will soon be available to determine how crews and their systems stand up under the G forces of rapid acceleration. The world's largest vacuum chamber, which bulges into the shape of a 120-ft. stainless-steel beer keg and is big enough to swallow an entire Apollo moonship, will go into operation later this year. At the edge of the space center, a field covered with heaps of steel-mill slag and pumice is used as a practice area for simulated exploration of a crater-pocked lunar landscape...
...vast amounts of food to Caamano's rebel zone-and could cut off those supplies if the rebels persist in refusing to yield their stronghold. Yet how long any settlement or provisional government will last is a moot point. After 31 years of savage Trujillo dictatorship and subsequent vacuum, the hatreds of the Dominican Republic run deep, and there are thousands of people on both sides who are just aching to have at each other. Added to that is the Castroite 14th-of-June group, which controls almost 2,000 of the 7,000 armed rebels and is busily...