Word: warmness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...jumping-off place for further penetration of that great continent. In Latin America-Cuba is gone, Bolivia is going, Brazil is on the brink, not to mention the mess in Panama. In Europe-we gave the cold shoulder to De Gaulle, and now he gives the warm hand to Mao Tse-tung...
...most of the G.O.P. contenders did little more last week than give Go-Day talks, New York's Rockefeller charged vigorously through a two-day visit to California with his wife Happy, now five months pregnant. Rocky's reception, from politicians, businessmen and Negro leaders, was surprisingly warm. Better yet, California's powerful vote-getting Senator Thomas Kuchel declared that he is "enthusiastically" for Rocky, is expected to head the Governor's delegate slate in the state's crucial June 2 presidential primary. Beamed Rocky: "All the elements are here for a real successful campaign...
...m.p.h., the six cameras would start taking pictures-more than five per second. Radioed back to earth, those pictures would have helped pick a site for future manned moon landings. But in its final dive, Ranger 6 made its first failure. Its TV cameras did not warm up to full power and no pictures came back to earth. Goldstone scientists could console themselves that they had made a remarkably accurate shot-and that they had three Rangers left to give them their longed-for look at the moon...
...Echo II rocketed into a polar orbit 642 to 816 miles above the earth. As it sped toward Madagascar about an hour after launch, the canister popped open, releasing the sturdy skin of the balloon, composed of two layers of aluminum foil laminated to a sheet of plastic. The warm rays of the sun began to vaporize chemicals inside the satellite, expanding it to its full 135-ft. diameter...
...game fishermen naturally think big, and they tend to sneer at anything under 20 Ibs. But there is one little fish found in the world's warm waters that sends saltwater anglers into shivering ecstasy and rates up with the monster marlin and tuna. The name is bonefish (Albula vulpes, literally white fox). The biggest ever caught on rod and reel weighed only 19 Ibs. A ten-pounder is worth mounting in the game room, and a 15-pounder is brags forever. Baseball's retired great, Ted Williams, fishes as passionately as he played. He once landed...