Word: bus
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...crews. The Proton may be the prototype of a command ship that could control whole fleets of spaceships capable of denying to the U.S. the "near space" between the atmosphere and the 600-mile-high Van Allen Belt. Washington's answer is its own Manned Orbiting Laboratory, a bus-sized vehicle scheduled to be launched in 1969 in which crews would live and work for a month at a time. In case Russia presses the challenge, the U.S. is experimenting with a laser weapon that has no recoil and therefore could be safely fired from a spacecraft...
...materials from individuals and businesses, renovated an old pavilion, restocked a lagoon, and installed night lighting in Marquette Park. In San Jose, Calif., Mrs. Lorna Smith watched Lady Bird on TV, picked up a trowel, marched out and planted a 30-ft. bed of iris next to the bus stop...
...Bus service ties the camp to downtown An Khe and the airfield. By comparison with Stateside bases, the Air Cav's lO-sq.-mi. complex is small. "But then," notes one officer wryly, "you don't need a training area here...
Divine Instrument. His nation was stunned. In the cities, whites and blacks fought for copies of the newspaper extras that brought the first word of the assassination. In Johannesburg, a bus driver saw the headlines, stopped his bus, and fainted at the wheel. A quarter of a million South Africans, black as well as white, stood silently on the streets of Pretoria while his funeral procession filed past. Hundreds of thousands of whites flocked to their churches for solace. "May the God in whom we believe make clear to us in his own time what this horrible event...
...near miraculous series of coincidences and split-second timing. In the 46 minutes between the assassination at 12:30 and the first report of Officer Tippit's slaying, Oswald is supposed to have dashed down six flights, slipped out of the building, walked seven blocks, boarded a bus, got off, found a taxicab, returned to his rooming house, donned a jacket, then turned up nearly a mile away and killed Tippit...