Word: caped
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...week was seared with rockets. The U.S. communications satellite, Echo II, expanded its aluminum skin and made ready to reflect messages from space. Saturn 5, boosting the biggest payload man has ever lofted into orbit, shot into the vast blue reaches above Cape Kennedy. Soon after, Ranger 6 arced on a graceful, curving course toward the moon. From a secret launching pad, half the world away, Soviet scientists fired a missile that spewed out two separate satellites. The variety of the shots was as impressive as the number, and the infinite distances of the universe seemed to shrink perceptibly...
...delayed the launch for 48 hours. Poised on the pad, the big bird had to wait impatiently while Air Force planes tracked down the noisy radio of a ship slogging along offshore. But now Saturn SA-5, biggest and most powerful rocket ever fired aloft, was rising above Cape Kennedy as routinely as any operational missile...
...last weekend, Lowenstein spent a few days at Harvard, encouraging people to act out their belief in civil rights by working in the South. In House dining rooms, groups clustered about Lowenstein to listen to an inexhaustible supply of tales about his personal experiences from Yazoo City, Mississippi, to Cape Town, South Africa. He provoked the interest, sometimes the anger, but always the respect, of those around...
Among the various business ventures of John Glenn, 42, and the six other original U.S. astronauts, none triggered so much flak as their two-year-old investment in the luxurious, 129-room Cape Colony Inn at Cape Kennedy. NASA superiors argue that the investment could be construed as unseemly capitalization on the space program. Not so, cries Astronaut Attorney Leo DeOrsey, 60, but "we felt that if it's distasteful to the boss, let's get out." So out they got, with each of the boys netting a tidy $6,000 profit on an initial $7,500 outlay...
Trafalgar is the first of three kits just put out by London Publisher Jonathan Cape for schoolchildren aged nine to 16. The other Jackdaws (named after the mimic bird) are equally graphic dossiers on Columbus' discovery of America and London's 17th century plague and fire. Soon to be published: more kits on the Magna Carta, the Armada, the Gunpowder Plot and the boy Shakespeare (timed to coincide with the bard's 400th anniversary...