Word: atlas
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...lifetime in the air, Cooper therefore had few fears about space flight. During his Mercury training period, medics were somewhat upset by his habit of falling asleep during the lengthy physical checks. And he was equally unflappable last Tuesday morning when he crawled into his capsule atop an Atlas missile at Canaveral's Pad 14 and waited six hours on his contour couch-for a launch that did not come that day. The countdown was stalled for more than two hours, while some of the world's most brilliant electronics and computer experts cursed at the refusal...
...thought Moore was peculiar. He was a pacifist and an atheist, who even objected to the words "In God We Trust" on U.S. coins. Binghamton was accustomed to his one-man picket parades. Whether urging fluoridation of the local water supply or protesting against the downtown display of an Atlas missile or prayers in public schools, Moore would hang a sign around his neck and start marching...
Everyone, in short, knows who Richard Burton is, or at least what he is at the moment. He is the demi-Atlas of this earth, the arm and burgonet of men, the fellow who is living with Elizabeth Taylor. Stevedores admire him. Movie idols envy him. He is a kind of folk hero out of nowhere, with an odd name like Richard instead of Tab, Rock, or Rip, who has out-tabbed, outrocked, and outripped the lot of them. He is the new Mr. Box Office...
...July 22, with Venus in perfect position for an easy encounter, Mariner I took off from Canaveral. For a while its Atlas climbed properly; then it began to yaw like a monstrous fish trying to shake a hook. All Canaveral watched in dismay as the great rocket snaked across the sky. The safety officer touched his destruct button, and the whole vehicle dissolved into a burst of orange flame and a shower of smoking shards...
...Socony Mobil Oil, Allied Chemical and a Chinese partner have set up a $22,500,000 joint fertilizer venture. American Cyanamid has joined with the Taiwan Sugar Corp. to set up a $2,000,000 antibiotics plant. Together with Chinese partners, Procter & Gamble is building a detergent-manufacturing plant. Atlas Chemical an industrial dynamite plant. Singer sewing machine, Harvey Aluminum and Gulf Oil plan to come in soon...