Word: vulcan
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...engines. But it was just an average Mauritanian afternoon, 114 and breezy....Much of the equipment Kern had brought to Africa was homemade, including a coelostat that incorporated a bicycle chain, part of a gun mount, and lead from melted car batteries.... Total eclipses are the ideal time for Vulcan hunts, since the sun is high but the sky is dark. Fischer was going to use an enormous aerial camera from World War II to photograph the region between the sun and Mercury....Mauritania has one modern hospital. Six doctors. Four midwives. Fifty-eight secondary school teachers. But that...
...Waspish Captain Kirk, played in a father-like manner by William Shatner; communications expert Uhura portrayed by the black and beautiful Nichele Nichols; Sulu, the oriental helmsman played by Walter Koenig; Dr. McCoy, the pacifist, depicted by DeForest Kelley; and of course the one and only Mr. Spock, half-Vulcan and half-human, portrayed by Leonard Nimoy. The crew becomes involved in a variety of intriguing tales, all of which make some comment on today's society. The shows deal with everything from sex to war, from racism to religion...
...James Baker, designer of optical systems. He had constructed a special camera and lens apparatus to black out the corona and search through the resulting darkness for objects within the orbit of Mercury. Astronomers have long talked about a hidden planet near the sun, tentatively named Vulcan, and Baker hoped to find this, or hitherto unseen comets. Only weeks of analysis will show whether he succeeded...
...owns some shares in Michigan General Corp., a diversified manufacturer. Cecil, one of those rare investors who scrutinizes his stock certificates instead of leaving them at the broker's office or a bank, was upset to discover that they bore the graven image of the Roman god Vulcan and a series of smokestacks spewing clouds of black smoke. Fuming, Cecil fired off a letter to the company: "I am turned off by all that pollution. It is a very insensitive symbol for a company to have...
Michigan General, a maker of abrasives, among other things, quickly smoothed out the situation. It changed the image. Vulcan was dethroned, the stacks were scrapped, and the stock certificates now show three men-a scientist, an industrialist and a workman. Informing its employees of the change, the company noted that smoke billowing from stacks, "once a sign of progress, [is] now an indication of unhealthy conditions." With the new certificate, it added, "Michigan General Corp. is fighting air pollution in spirit as well as in substance...