Word: tape
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...same as a thousand other shows in which the freckle-faced redhead had played up to his vast television audience. There were the same folksy-folksy jokes, the same rasp-voiced sentimentality about things, places and people. But Arthur Godfrey's last appearance last week was on tape; he was in a hospital bed, waiting for surgery on a tumor that turned out to be cancer of the lung...
Born. To Harold Connolly, 27, the U.S.'s 1956 Olympic hammer-throwing champion and world-record holder, and Olga Fikotova Connolly, 26, Czechoslovakia's husky 1956 Olympic women's discus champion, whose stadium romance led to marriage through endless festoons of Red tape: their first child, a son; in Santa Monica, Calif. Name: Mark. Weight: 11 Ibs. 13 oz.-just 4 Ibs. 3 oz. less than his father's hammer...
...first two games, then reeled off eight in a row. Hoehn managed to pull up to 4-3 in the second set with a service break, but Weld broke his opponent in the eighth game, winning the final point on a beautiful crosscourt forehand that just nicked the tape...
...theory is that the Russians outsmarted themselves by refusing to tell the outside world how to interpret signals from their satellites. Since only the low parts of the Sputnik orbits were over Soviet territory, Russian scientists never got reports from high altitudes. If any of the Sputniks carried tape recorders, they apparently did not work...
...fabulous nuisance in space right now," he says. "He's not worth all the cost of putting him up there and keeping him comfortable and working." Instruments are lighter, tougher and less demanding, are sensitive to many things that human senses ignore. They already have memories (tape recorders), and they can carry computers that will permit them to make judgments. An instrument-manned Venus probe should be able to make observations and adjust its course by firing small rockets when it nears its goal. Perhaps it will round Venus and then put itself into a back-to-earth trajectory...