Word: capes
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...cosmonauts simultaneously swirled in space in a fine exhibition of launch timing-and both orbited longer than Cooper. Almost certainly, another Soviet space extravaganza is ahead. But Russia has never done much more than tell the world of its space successes-via verbal reports-and last week's Cape Canaveral launching was seen by millions overseas via Telstar television. It was a display of free world candor and confidence that undercut the post facto reports of Soviet achievements...
...lightning-white flame. There was never any doubt about the success of the launching, and as he soared into space, Gordon Cooper, the most reticent of the astronauts, was exultant. "Boy, this is beautiful," he radioed. "Boy oh boy. It looks that pretty. Boy oh boy." On the ground. Cape Communicator Schirra was also elated. "You got a real sweet trajectory, Gordo," he advised. "You're right smack dab in the middle of the plot." Little more could be said: Cooper's velocity, programmed at an ideal of 25,715 ft. per second, was 25,716; his heading...
...cameras whirred, he grabbed a girder and screamed: "No! I don't wanna go! I won't go!" The TV men were amused, but not the NASA officials. Again, during Gus Grissom's suborbital flight. Cooper, who had been flying a chase jet, buzzed the Cape and momentarily disrupted communications. He was severely reprimanded, and it was that sort of stunt that a worried Mercury official had in mind when he said before last week's flight: "He's enough of a daredevil to pull some stunt up there we don't know about...
...funeral in Cape Town recently, a young Colored woman ran up to her father's sister, whom she had not seen in several months. "Hello, auntie!" she cried. Tossing her head contemptuously, the older woman snapped: "Don't call me auntie. Call me missus...
...letter of the law, the aunt acted irreproachably. Until this year, she and her husband had spent their entire lives in the murky social limbo to which South Africa relegates the Coloreds, its 1,500,000 people of mixed European and nonwhite descent. Then one day this year, Cape Province's Race Classification Board informed the light-skinned couple that they had been reclassified as whites. Henceforth, if they are seen associating with Coloreds, even close relatives, they will run the risk of being downgraded to Colored status again and forfeit the civil rights and economic advantages that accrue...