Word: caped
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Cape Kennedy, Correspondents David Lee and Joseph Kane were joined by Senior Editor Peter Bird Martin and Contributing Editor Larry DuBois, who had flown down from New York to record firsthand impressions of the massive press, radio and TV coverage-and indeed share the feelings of the million or more other space watchers at the Cape during those awesome moments of blastoff...
...space shot, TV these days delivers technical excellence, informed commentary and immediacy. So why go to the scene? Were the hundreds of thousands of tourists, the 6,000 or so special guests of NASA and the 1,782 journalists all foolish to take the trouble of being at Cape Kennedy? Just ask one who walked into the Vehicle Assembly Building, where the 363-ft.-tall Saturn 5 rocket was put together, and listen to him insist that no picture had ever prepared him for the experience of looking up at the towering vastness, the esthetic curves of the work platforms...
Harvard Summer School trip to Cape Cod will leave at 9:30 a.m. on July 26. The trip will include a tour of Plymouth, swimming and dinner in Hyannis Port, and a performance of MAME at the cape Cape Cod Melody Tent. Tickets an information in Matthews Hall 4; or phone 868-7600, ext. 2945. Deadline for buying tickets is Thursday, July...
...there anything more difficult. Before Kennedy made his moon-landing announcement, the nation's entire manned space experience totaled 15 min. 20 sec.-the length of Alan Shepard's suborbital fling down the Atlantic test range on May 5, 1961. Rockets had been blowing up on their Cape Canaveral launch pads with humiliating frequency; from 1958 to 1964, the U.S. suffered 13 straight failures in its efforts to send rockets around or onto the moon...
...purely interpretive. I have nothing to equate it with. I don't know whether it is like him or unlike him." Still, the young artist must be doing something right: he has been commissioned by NASA authorities to join Robert Rauschenberg, John Meigs and William Thon at Cape Kennedy to sketch his impressions of this week's scheduled Apollo 11 blastoff to the moon...