Word: zeroes
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...technically an admission of guilt, forces the Arthur Murray studios to abandon most of their now famous promotional schemes. These included telephone calls asking prospects to name two former U.S. presidents who were once generals, "Lucky Buck" contests soliciting dollar bills whose serial numbers included a five and a zero, and zodiac-and crossword-puzzle contests. All offered free dance lessons as a reward for the right answers, but the FTC charged that the contests were too easy to be genuine, were used as bait with which high-pressure Murray salesmen conned prospects into signing up for added courses...
...bombers that ominous night in March 1942, a motley armada ghosted in across the broad tidal flats of the Loire estuary. Thin-skinned motor launches flicked their white wakes into the glare of hastily lowered searchlights. Ack-ack gunners frantically cranked their weapons toward zero elevation. Shells screamed across the river, and the water ran with fire as fuel tanks were...
...Venus will encounter great survival difficulties, including a temperature on Venus "well over the boiling point of water." Liller noted that, although certain parts of Mars sometimes reach a balmy 85 degrees Fahrenheit during the day, the prospective explorers would have a rough time surviving the 156-degree-below-zero nights...
...paradoxes of planets, in addition to debunking popular conceptions. Mercury, the smallest planet, has both the highest and lowest temperature in the solar system. While temperatures on the side of Mercury that always faces the sun rise to 800 degrees Fahrenheit, the dark side (only 50 degrees above absolute zero) is colder than Pluto, the furthermost planet from...
...Burke gave Raborn orders to proceed with "all possible haste" to develop a fleet ballistic missile. He was authorized to set up a task force called, simply, Special Projects, which would cut across all the Navy's cherished bureaus. His work, Raborn was told, would get "Brickbat Zero One" priority; there was (and is) none higher. Target date...