Word: capes
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...evaluation time at Cape Canaveral last week, and if U.S. space technicians have any complaint, it is that U.S. space travelers still seem to think they are primarily airplane drivers. Like Colonel John Glenn before him, Commander Scott Carpenter soared into orbit with remarkably little faith in his capsule's automatic positioning equipment. He spent all but a few minutes of his five hours aloft "flying" his spaceship by hand, changing its attitude while in orbit with squirts of peroxide steam, at one point using two systems at once. As a result, he all but ran out of fuel...
...with a fleet of seven-passenger limousines equipped with telephones and dictating machines. Currently Chalk is absorbed in an 85-m.p.h. rubber-tired "Superail," similar to monorails. He wants to build one from Washington, D.C., across the Potomac to the new Dulles International Airport, another from Orlando, Fla., to Cape Canaveral, and a third in Puerto Rico. The cost of these projects he is willing to share with the U.S. Government...
...Prayers. Rene wanted to share her husband's flight in the only way she knew how. Though the wives of Astronauts Shepard and Glenn had stayed away during their husbands' flights, she decided to go to Cape Canaveral last week ("The Navy brought me down, and friends gave us a house stocked with food"). She spoke to Carpenter on the phone just before liftoff, then took her children to the beach to watch the shoot. She said no prayers. "I feel the same way as Scott," she explained, referring to Carpenter's conviction that it is presumptuous...
...angry Deputies of South Africa's dwindling opposition parties rose in Cape Town's Parliament to blast the government's new "death for sabotage" bill, which would give the regime sweeping authoritarian powers...
...measures that have ever come before this honorable House." But the most eloquent attack on the bill was silent. It came from the rows of solemn women wearing black mourning sashes who last week kept a day and night vigil of protest outside Johannesburg's city hall and Cape Town's Parliament buildings...