Word: speeding
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...going out of my mind," Aldrin told Neil Armstrong. While Armstrong and other astronauts confirmed the mysterious flashes, NASA scientists were at first inclined to attribute them to an optical quirk. Now they have proposed a more plausible explanation: cosmic rays. Though only some of these high-speed particles-mostly protons-manage to break through the shield of the earth's magnetic field, they can easily penetrate the eyelids of a space traveler, pass through the eye fluid and strike the retina. At times, they may even hit the brain's optic nerve. Such bombardment causes no serious...
...have paid for all the foreign economic aid in the fiscal 1970 budget. Two billion dollars is nearly twice the amount of federal funds set aside this year for low-and moderate-income housing; it is almost 20 times the 1970 federal budget for urban mass transit and high-speed ground transportation...
What the great debate is all about is whether the U.S. supersonic transport, a sleek, needle-shaped bird programmed to fly above the weather at 21 times the speed of sound, will be a boon, as Pan American World Airways President Halaby predicts, or if, in the words of Ecology Buff Arthur Godfrey, it will be "a boom-doggie." To a growing number of critics, the latter seems likely...
While SST flights may be banned from populated areas, some ecologists fear that economic necessity may reverse this pattern. If this happens, they say, sonic booms generated as SSTs fly at speeds in excess of the speed of sound could upset people who do delicate work (brain surgeons) and may also harm persons with nervous ailments...
...remarkable thing about Colburn's performance Saturday is that he has been training almost haphazardly in the last week or two. He is one of the class marshals and has had to devote much of his time to commencement activities. His practice was hard distance instead of speed...