Word: instruments
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...larger and heavier than its Mercury predecessors. Still, there was no room to spare. All sections contained rocket motors of assorted sizes capable of firing in every direction for the control of attitude in flight, and to change speed and orbital path. As for the crowded cockpit itself, its instrument panels bristled with an intricate array of switches, knobs and dials that controlled everything from the air conditioning of the astronauts' space suits to the most delicate computer computations necessary for the mission. Everything was there in carefully planned, expensive detail; there was even a little mechanical pencil dangling...
...look to the Orient and to Latin American art easier and quicker just because of geography." He intends building on the present splendors to produce a top-grade total museum. "Doing it becomes an obligation," says he. "The new museum will become what all truly great museums are: an instrument with which a community can set increasingly high standards for its citizens...
Controlling an Animal. But Tosca is not a play; the singing's the thing. And even Callas could not make it otherwise. Never an instrument of luscious quality, her soprano last week was a thin and often wobbly echo of the voice that fled the Met in 1958. Her high notes were shrill and achingly insecure, and seemed all the more so by contrast with the rich, ringing tenor of Franco Corelli as Mario. In the poignant Vissi d'Arte aria, Callas relied almost wholly on dramatic rather than vocal brilliance to carry her through-which...
...missile's exposed side to keep off rain and the Cape's corrosive salt mists. Inside, casually competent engineers and technicians in white hard hats begin to spin the spidery wires and connect the delicate electronic mechanisms that will control the bird. Capsule specialists poise their instrument-packed pod atop the rocket to check it out. If all goes well, fuel specialists attach the plumbing that will fill the projectile's maw with explosive cargoes of liquid oxygen and kerosene, or intractable liquid hydrogen...
...such families to pay 20% of their income for housing-and the Government would make up any necessary difference. Critics might wonder if an $8,000-a-year family really ought to be on a dole, but the President insisted that this section might "prove the most effective instrument of our new housing policy...