Word: weather
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Proprietor James W. Whittaker and Ellensburg Glaciologist Barry Prather, both members of the successful American Mount Everest expedition in 1963. After an hour's elementary instruction for Bobby, the three, roped together with Bobby in the middle, set out to the high camp at 12,000 ft. The weather closed in, and it was a hard upward grind...
...Munro didn't have 13 returning lettermen from last year's Ivy co champions, his optimism would be completely unfounded. For in three week of practice, the weather has allowed his team outdoors only twice. The rest of the practices have been held in Briggs Cage, where, according to Munro, "the visibility is poor and the space just inadequate...
...Russians have lagged in the construction of the delicate instrumented craft that the U.S. puts up for communications, observing the weather, studying the sun, photographing the moon and probing the planets. But, as yet, the U.S. has nothing to match their powerful, reliable boosters and their spacious, multi-manned satellites. The whole world was understandably impressed by the latest Soviet success...
...process sounds, it is already at the point of becoming routine and outdatedly slow-good enough for such bread-and-butter missions as re laying messages, photographing the moon, measuring micrometeoroid impact, sending space vehicles past Venus and Mars, monitoring radiation and watching the earth's weather. For the first manned Gemini mission, scientists have bred a new generation of fuels designated "hypergolic"-powerful liquids that explode on contact with one another but require no delicate refrigeration for storage...
...blackened and rain began falling straight down, too heavy now to be shifted by the wind. White onlookers retreated from the curbs and onto nearly porches. Most chewed gum, spitting angrily every few minutes. A few tried to laugh, but ridicule didn't work in this weather and most chose silence...