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...which has been using SNAP (Systems for Nuclear Auxiliary Power) power packs since 1961, has had three accidents. A Navy navigation satellite failed to reach orbit in 1964 and disintegrated in the atmosphere over Madagascar. A meteorological satellite was aborted on launch from Vandenberg Air Force Base in 1968, and the nuclear package was recovered intact. As Apollo 13 returned from an unsuccessful moon flight in 1970, the three astronauts had to jettison their unused moon lander, and its power pack plunged into the Pacific Ocean near Australia...
...relatively small family farms, a landowner can find his hard-won acres chopped up. The high wires also discourage pilots from doing increasingly important aerial spraying and seeding. Besides, Minnesota farmers are fully aware of the experience of people living near similar high-voltage lines elsewhere. The lines literally snap, crackle and pop, and they set up electromagnetic fields that can produce jolting, if nonlethal, shocks in anyone touching ungrounded machinery and other metallic conductors within...
Harvard put a slight dent into that lead as the Crimson's Jim Trainor scored on a nice snap shot with a mere 24 seconds gone in the third period. But the Crimson could not muster a more effective offense, while B.C. buried the Crimson with four more goals in the final humiliating period...
Trading rhythm for awareness t do you call people who use the rhythm method of birth control?" went the old joke. The snap retort: "Parents." That cynical humor was based on unhappy experience. The rhythm method, in which a woman keeps track of her menstrual cycle on the calendar to determine the time of ovulation and hence of maximum fertility, proved to be only about 60% effective. Now the Department of Health, Education and Welfare is bankrolling a $1.4 million study, involving 800 California couples, to test the effectiveness of a new, natural birth control system that may be more...
Harvard again deadlocked the tilt 40 seconds into the second stanza. John Dunderdale took a pass from Jack Hughes, and then, realizing he was wearing number four, Bobby Orred his way by two men to snap a wrister from the left face-off circle by Milner, who had failed to come out to cut off Dunder's angle...