Word: slightingly
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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...modest reduction in the support price. Benson hoped that the lower support price would lead to a smaller crop; instead, farmers increased their corn acreage by a whacking 15%, harvested the biggest, most glutting corn crop in U.S. history. And by last week's new estimates showed a slight increase in 1960 corn acreage rather than the decrease that Benson had fervently hoped for. Barring something about as probable as a midsummer frost in the Midwest, the U.S. faces another corn glut this year...
Pioneer's report, after covering the first million miles of its 500 million-mile orbit around the sun: "Everything is fine." Its internal temperature is 68° F., slightly lower than the standard temperature of a U.S. living room. The four paddles that collect solar energy for its radio are colder: 27° F. Eighty-seven slight impacts from , micrometeorites and five heavier ones were registered, but nothing really damaging. Other data will take months to interpret. Eventually they will tell about cosmic rays, magnetic fields and other space conditions between the earth and the orbit of Venus...
Vanguard's second virtue is the solar battery that has kept its small radio beeping steadily, long after bigger satellites lost their voices. Tracked by its radio signals, the "grapefruit's" motions in its orbit have given invaluable information about the earth's slightly bumpy gravitational field, and about the shape of the earth itself. Last week another bit of information came down from the little satellite. There was a slight, unexplained wandering in its long-studied orbit. After much calculation, Dr. Peter Munsen and other orbit experts of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration reached their...
Hussein's response to this diplomatic slight was to send the consul packing. Nasser's next move was to propose that the Arabs re-create an entity called Palestine, with its own army. What is left to the Arabs of what used to be Palestine, except for the Gaza Strip wedge that Nasser controls, has been absorbed into Jordan, adding an educated and restless population to what used to be a desert kingdom...
Despite a slight flush of embarrassment, Yale's School of Medicine was in the clear: its bureau of purchases had bought the dogs believing them to be genuine unclaimed strays. And the school will continue to get as many as it needs, from wardens elsewhere in the state. The question as to who could now get elected dogcatcher in the towns around New Haven is academic. In Connecticut, nobody is elected; each town's first selectman (equivalent to mayor) fills the office by appointment...