Word: spinning
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...neighbors are in a favorable position-about five or six times a decade. But instead of using complex and expensive Mariner or Voyager spacecraft for these flights, the scientists recommended the older and more economical Pioneer-type craft first launched in 1958. They are smaller than the Mariners and spin at 60 r.p.m., but can be crammed full of sophisticated new instruments. Placed into orbit around the planets, the little craft could return detailed scientific data and even take pictures with a transistorized, 10-Ib. TV camera. Pioneers could also be flown past Jupiter...
...modern theater, whether in London or New York, dwells in this half-light, with its pensive mixture of not-yet-dusk and not-quite-dawn. Since drama does not spin on nature's axis but on man's art, the pallid half-light may be prolonged. In few ages has the theater dazzled, yet through how many has it endured...
...above the earth with precisely timed bursts of a small rocket called an apogee-kick motor. Tho operation evened out the varying gravitational tugs of the original elliptical orbit, which would have bent and distorted the antennas. Next, RAE-A's masters had to stop its 92-r.p.m. spin, which would have wrapped the antennas uselessly around the exterior of the satellite. Two ¾-lb. "Yoyo" weights were released at the end of 27-ft. wires, reducing the satellite's rate of spin like a whirling skater who slows himself down by extending his arms. Their task accomplished...
Pausing in Paris to visit his uncle, U.S. Ambassador R. Sargent Shriver, Robert F. Kennedy Jr., 14, took an afternoon to try out a motor scooter in a brisk, hair-raising spin through the byways of the Bois de Boulogne. On the next lap of his summer work-vacation, Bobby pushes on to Dar-es-Salaam, on Africa's east coast. From there, Tanzanian game wardens will help him in his study of African wildlife-and Bobby will doubtless work with them in their efforts to conserve the herds of elephant, rhinoceros, giraffe, wildebeest and antelope that roam...
Bearing Witness. Aretha's vocal technique is simple enough: a direct, natural style of delivery that ranges over a full four octaves, and the breath control to spin out long phrases that curl sinuously around the beat and dangle tantalizingly from blue notes. But what really accounts for her impact goes beyond technique: it is her fierce, gritty conviction. She flexes her rich, cutting voice like a whip; she lashes her listeners ?in her words?"to the bone, for deepness." "Aretha's music makes you sweaty, gives you a chill, makes you want to stomp your feet," says Bobby...