Word: westernness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Having piloted Voshkod 1 in 1964, Cosmonaut Komarov was the first Russian to soar into space twice. According to Western experts who tracked Soyuz and monitored its messages, he spent the early hours of his flight routinely checking out the systems of his 15,000-lb. to 16,000-lb. ship, which was slightly larger than the 12,000-lb. Apollo. But by the cosmonaut's fifth revolution around the earth, they believe, increasing difficulties with both the attitude-control and communications systems warned ground controllers that the flight of Soyuz might have to be prematurely ended. Plans...
Although the Russians have so far provided few details, Western experts believe that Komarov ran into real trouble on the 15th orbit, when an attitude thruster misfired, sending Soyuz tumbling wildly. It was the same kind of malfunction that nearly proved disastrous to America's Gemini...
...Mathieson, running counter to a downward trend among chemical companies, had a record 36% rise in earnings for the quarter to $16,600,000. Sales, said President Gordon Grand, were $284 million, or 11% higher than last year, because of "strong contributions from agricultural chemicals, copper-base alloys, Winchester-Western, Olinkraft forest products and from our Squibb division...
...York Central last year, only to see it tangled in legal challenges. Last week-a year later to the day-the ICC bestowed its blessing on a rail merger that it hopes will be consummated with minimum delay. Highballed to join on June 1 were the Chicago and North Western and the smaller Chicago Great Western, whose get-together could save the two lines $6,000,000 a year...
...noted that the ailing Great Western's "limited traffic volume and capital" has prevented it from modernizing. By absorbing the line into the healthier North Western, that situation should be cured. The resulting line, retaining the name Chicago and North Western, would have 12,000 miles of track in eleven states. The merger would enable the two roads to discontinue several freight trains each and consolidate facilities at 28 points, including Chicago, Minneapolis-St. Paul and Des Moines. Not content with that, the North Western continues to hanker for control of both the Milwaukee Road and the Rock Island...