Word: zeroes
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...refusal to mistake physical growth for educational progress. The town is proud that it planned its schools so well that it has never had a single day of double sessions, prouder that as a pioneer in spotting potential failures it has cut its dropout rate almost to zero. This concern wins rewards: since 1962, Newton has received more than $500,000 in foundation grants for refining new ways of teaching everything from nursing to geography to business history. When the Harvard Graduate School of Education tries out a new idea, from team teaching to teacher training, Newton is the school...
Studying Sea & Sun. Braving 100-m.p.h. winds and temperatures that have been known to drop to 127.3° F. below zero, 43 U.S. scientists will winter over in Antarctica this year. Though it costs the U.S. up to $200,000 to put a single researcher on the continent, the 50 independent projects they are working on (total budget: $27 million) may ultimately prove a more fruitful investment than far costlier space research. Staging area for U.S. forces in Antarctica is Christchurch, N.Z. There, ten times weekly during summer months, Navy transports with special ski-type landing gear take...
...about 100 miles northwest of the capital. On the eve of his marriage to a Russian girl, the student's body was discovered near the railroad tracks of a suburban Moscow station. The Soviet police claimed that Asare-Addo, drunk, had fallen down in the 11 °-below-zero weather and frozen to death. But Ghanaians, who knew that the marriage was fiercely opposed by the girl's Russian friends, insisted that the youth was stabbed below the chin and tossed into the snow...
...riding the Gemini's cramped capsule will open a hatch in the heat shield and crawl into the lab, where efficient life-support equipment will let them safely shuck their cumbersome space suits. They will have plenty of room to move around, and by making due allowance for zero gravity, they will be able to perform elaborate and delicate tasks. After several weeks in the lab, they will return to the capsule and close the hatch in the heat shield. After detaching the MOL and leaving it in orbit, they will ignite their retrorockets and make their flaming descent...
Chilling winds swept in off the Great Lakes, and an early snowfall muffled Midwestern cities. Rain fell from leaden skies over Atlanta and Anchorage, and Denver shivered in sub-zero cold. Across the nation, flags still stood at half-staff in reminder...