Word: side
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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...satellites so far have gone into elliptical orbits, rising considerably higher above the earth on one side than on the other. Some of the lopsided orbits have been intentional, to give information about thick layers of space. Others, although unwanted, were unavoidable. Once the original rockets had burned out, there was no power available to correct the orbit. Last week Lockheed Aircraft Corp. announced development of a rocket engine that can fire a second time, enabling ground controllers or an automatic mechanism to kick a straying satellite into a circular orbit by picking the moment to set off the second...
...version of the Agena has not yet done its tricks in space, but in ground tests it has performed well. When used in the second stage of a satellite launcher, it will use most of its fuel to make the satellite climb toward a high apogee on the far side of the earth. Left to itself, the satellite would descend again to the low point (perigee) where it first went into orbit. But at apogee the Agena will fire a second time, giving enough additional push to put the satellite on a high, near-circular orbit, and keep it there...
...past as Gallant Fox, Johnstown and Omaha, Mr. Fitz had always been lucky at Hialeah. There, in recent seasons, he had developed Nashua and, most recently, Bold Ruler, 1957's horse of the year. Nashua's first get, frisky two-year-olds, are training now at Hialeah side by side with those of Swaps, the great California horse that beat Nashua in the 1955 Kentucky Derby. But Mr. Fitz last week had eyes only for the Wheatley Stable's three-year-old Progressing, a capricious colt getting ready to run his first race of the season...
...News had its mourners-especially among the 130 editorial staffers faced with the necessity of finding new jobs. Last week a sense of unreality hung over the once-busy city room, which had been turned into a sort of employment agency to help ex-staffers get jobs. On one side of the newsroom a bulletin board listed some 200 job offers in Cleveland industry, but few newspaper openings. Out-of-town papers, e.g., the Minneapolis Star and Tribune, sent personnel representatives to interview ex-News reporters, many of whom discovered that they were considered too old to pick up good...
...Manhattan last week, Billy happily gave Director Katz a conducted tour of the treasures that will soon be his. The statues dwarf their diminutive owner. In the entry Hugo Robus' green bronze Song seemed about to chirp a childish "May I take your coat?" At one side of the powder room stood Nadelman's painted bronze Woman, attentive as a lady-in-waiting. At the other side arched Robus' rainbowlike, semi-abstract Woman Washing Her Hair. The washroom offered a brace of sporting dogs by Hunt Diederich, and in its paneled lounge stood Epstein's mournful...