Word: zone
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...business savvy to big government. He launched Accelerated Business Collection-Delivery (ABCD), a service in which letters mailed in any of 273 cities by 11 a.m. are delivered to any point in the downtown section of the city by 3 p.m. the same day. Day's recently inaugurated Zone Improvement Plan (ZIP), using five-digit codes affixed by the sender, is designed to speed mail service by pinpointing exactly how the letter should be routed-through one of ten U.S. regions, and on to states, cities, towns, postal zones or even large office buildings. Already in use by advertising...
...Twilight Zone (CBS, 9-10 p.m.).* Mystery of an American astronaut who loses contact with ground control for six hours while in orbit and finds things strangely unfamiliar when he returns. Repeat...
Twice last week the big U.S. Air Force hospital plane thundered north from La Paz to the Canal Zone, each time carrying strictly quarantined, desperately ill patients plucked from the hinterlands of Bolivia for transfer to the modern facilities of Gorgas Hospital. First to land were Wisconsin-born Dr. Ronald MacKenzie, 38, and Panamanian Technician Angel Muñoz, 42. At Gorgas, the fearful diagnosis made in the field was confirmed: both were victims of a newly discovered and deadly disease, Bolivian hemorrhagic fever. By midweek, the C-130 with its doctor-nurse team had made another trip, carrying...
...mark, the fine old art of pitching is enjoying its biggest revival since the day of the spitball. Team batting is down 15 points from 1962. Home run production is off 20% in the National League, 6% in the American League. Part of it is the newly enlarged strike zone that stretches all the way from a batter's knees to the top of his shoulders. But mostly pitchers just seem to be better than before. "Day after day, club after club," says Manager Alvin Dark of the San Francisco Giants, "I've seen nothing but good pitchers...
...Argonauts get into all sorts of telegenic scrapes. In one episode, the Argo is sailing through a maritime falling-rock zone, with boulders crashing into the sea from viselike cliffs. Hera, watching the show live, sends Triton from the bottom of the sea to hold the rocks apart so the Argo can sail past. Jason sails on to get the Golden Fleece. He needs this gelt pelt in order to claim the throne of Thessaly, but it is watched over by the Hydra, as disgusting a monster as ever writhed and roared on the screen. Hydra has more heads than...