Word: speeding
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Antonia H. Chayes has resigned as dean of Tufts University's Jackson College to dramatize her impatience with the speed with which Tufts and the female college are merging...
...Apollo properly for the burn?was impossible ("It looks like we're in the middle of the Milky Way," the astronauts had remarked earlier). But the spacemen neatly improvised by taking rougher fixes on the moon and the sun. Then they fired Aquarius' descent engine, increasing Apollo 13's speed by 600 m.p.h. The 4-minute, 24-second burn was so accurate that only two more small course corrections were subsequently needed...
...High-Speed Train...
Picking up speed under the increasing pull of the earth's gravity, Apollo was now rapidly approaching its narrow re-entry slot. To make sure of a precise reentry, Lovell and Haise fired one more brief burst from Aquarius' thrusters. Swigert meanwhile took up his post in the command module pilot's seat. Looking out of the window, he commented: "That earth is whistling in like a high-speed train...
About 30 students staged a "die-in" in front of TWA's ticket desk at Logan International Airport early yesterday evening, while more than 100 other students stood by. The group-which filled the central area of TWA's lobby-was protesting government construction of the SST, a supersonic speed passenger transport which will join airline fleets...