Word: zenith
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...there were times when it did indeed seem like more of a spectacular than a golf match. The cameras picked up the golfers at the 13th tee in each of the two rounds, at one point kept the trio waiting for ten minutes while the sponsors (Zenith, Amana home freezers) got in their plugs. Technicians drummed distractions on the TV towers, and former P.G.A. Champ Bob Rosburg, who was announcing the show, often told the players what club to use on a shot. Said Nicklaus: "I heard Rosburg say I'd probably use a five iron on the 16th...
Conceding the necessity of spending for sheer survival, corporate executives nonetheless complain that the brightest young scientists are flocking into Government-guided work instead of into what Zenith Radio President J. S. Wright calls "the mundane world of household goods." Not only are the glamorous frontier technologies more challenging to inventors, but they are also more rewarding because of generous Government cost-plus contracts...
Later crews may spend as many as four days exploring the moon, but the first men to land will probably take off again promptly. They will wait only for the mother ship to appear overhead. When it is about 3° behind their zenith, they will fire their rockets and rise vertically, leaving their landing gear behind. Because of low lunar gravity (16% of the earth's) and lack of atmosphere, take-off from the moon should be comparatively easy. NASA planners believe that finding the mother ship and joining it will be no more difficult than long-practiced...
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...HEAVEN: People have often made fun of this idea of "ascending into heaven." They have asked whether Christ did it like some kind of bird or aviator. And they have objected that heaven is at the nadir quite as much as at the zenith, and that the ascension should be interpreted in a merely "spiritual" sense. I would not advise anyone to deny this movement from the bottom up. It is not just an illustration. Of course, we must understand the place to which Christ goes, this "right hand of God," is a divine place. Place and time...