Word: zeroes
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...with six different kinds of planes. British pilots keep their hands entirely off the controls as the plane descends, while electronic devices operate the control surfaces and throttle all the way to touchdown. British aviation authorities may certify the VC-10 and other aircraft for fully automatic landings in zero-visibility conditions on regular passenger flights as early as 1969. But U.S. landing systems are also being perfected. Last month a Pan Am jet made a fully automatic landing at New York using a system developed jointly by Boeing and the Sperry Phoenix...
After a torturous half-hour, Fuenzalida nosed up through the buffeting winds and started back for Punta Arenas. Over the Strait of Magellan, the oil pressure in the right engine dropped to zero, forcing Fuenzalida to turn it off. The Piper lost altitude gradually, just made the runway. Sayle headed straight for the nearest wirephoto machine in Santiago, and next morning the Times splashed its scoop on the front page along with Sayle's pictures. Wrote Sayle: "The sight of Gipsy Moth plowing bravely through the wilderness of rain and sea was well worth...
...moon. With that much preparation, McDonnell easily won the competition to build the Mercury capsule. Then well-publicized goofs marred the early phases of the program; it was almost more than Perfectionist Mac could bear when NASA cameras detected a loose nut and a crumpled cigarette package during a zero-gravity test of an early capsule. The problems were overcome so completely that Astronaut John Glenn, America's first man in orbit, popped from his Friendship 7 Mercury capsule and sent his regards to the manufacturer as "a very satisfied customer." Later, at the plant, Glenn told the teammates: "Your...
Bennies & Goof balls. As increasing evidence of teen-age addiction is uncovered, a counterrevolution is beginning. Colleges, universities and high schools are suddenly eager for effective antidrug literature. Authorities agree that the young pre-addict is the one to zero in on. The problem is how to reach him. The new federal Bureau of Drug Abuse Control, which, with the National Association of Student Personnel Administrators, recently co-sponsored seven regional conferences, discovered that the difficulty most often cited by students and educators alike was lack of communication: today's teenagers, rebelling against adult authority, turn...
Doing Nicely. Silberbauer was reprimanded, and is now back on the Vienna force. Explains Wiesenthal: "Compared to other names in my files, Silberbauer is a nobody, a zero." Other names in Wiesenthal's at-large list go far beyond zero. They include Dr. Josef Mengele, Hitler's geneticist, who tried to turn the world blue-eyed for Aryanism by means of painful ocular injections; he is now reported by Wiesenthal to be hiding in Paraguay. Biggest fish still at large, though, is Deputy Führer Martin Bormann, now 66, who Wiesenthal claims is not only alive...