Word: wide
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...WIDE WORLD OF SPORTS (ABC, 5-6:30 p.m.). Japanese All-Star Baseball Game from Tokyo...
...other astronomers have been unable to locate Lowell's canals. Most likely, says Franklin A. Gifford Jr. of the U.S. Weather Bureau, Lowell spotted elongated sand dunes that resemble canals from afar; a dune of this sort in Libya extends more than 400 miles and is three miles wide...
...then removed a piece of foil that had been used to trap solar particles and two lunar core samples. Finally, he opened the plastic bag containing the rocks themselves. The scientific observers said that the 15 or so rocks -the largest was 7 in. long, 5 in. wide and 1½ in. thick-seemed to be covered by a fine, graphite-like powder. Their color was gray, tinged with a touch of cocoa. "This is the beginning of the study of lunar rocks on earth," said Robin Brett, one of the geologists. "To all scientists this is a very, very...
...catalogue of spin-offs from space is as wide-ranging as the human imagination. The luminous metallic material that helps in the docking of spacecraft in darkness may eventually free motorists from the need to fumble for their car locks at night. The need for manageable space foods has given impetus to the improvement of freeze-dried fruit, freeze-dried coffee and food concentrates...
...been talking to workers all day and had asked them whether they wanted our help," Boyd said. "When we were arrested, we were spread over a block and a half in groups of two and three, and couldn't possibly have blocked the 15 to 20 foot wide Berkeley St. side-walk," he said...