Word: capes
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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South Africa last week was in the grip of a war scare. Who the enemy was, nobody quite knew. But the danger was there all right, declared Defense Minister Jacobus Johannes Fouche, who rose in Cape Town's Senate to cry: "Military action against our country is being openly advocated and secretly planned. There exists in Africa the potential to call up an army of liberation. In spite of threats we shall not yield. We must be militarily strong." With that. Fouche announced plans for the biggest military buildup in South Africa's peacetime history. The new budget...
...range safety officers at Cape Canaveral and other U.S. missile centers have a recurrent nightmare. A missile is climbing out perfectly; everything works, and there is no need to press the "destruct" button that sends a special radio signal racing after an errant missile and commands it to blow itself to bits. Yet suddenly the destruct system is activated, and the missile, possibly with a man atop it, explodes in a blossom of flame. The odds against such a mishap are small, but there is always a chance that an unintended signal perhaps from a badly adjusted ham radio...
...only that. These astronauts, you may remember, have been raking it in from Life magazine (you know, "My Own Story: How It Feels to Shake a President's Hand But Seriously Though It's Really An Awful Great Thrill"). This money, it now appears, will construct Cape Canaveral's newest motel. Sole owners and coupon clippers: John Glenn, five more, and palpitating old Donald Slayton...
...precious data come from a 440-lb. satellite observatory launched last week from Cape Canaveral into an orbit averaging 355 miles high. The satellite, called OSO (for Orbiting Solar Observatory), is a gadget-lovers' dream, the most complex object launched into space so far. Yet at last report it was working perfectly...
...elemental big forms-sky, sea. mountain, plain-to sort of re-true himself up, to recharge the battery. But to express these, you have to love these, to be a part of these in sympathy." Marin's sympathy lasted to the end. From his home in Cape Split, Me., he dashed off one of his last notes to a friend just when nature was erupting all around him. "The Hurricane has just hit," he said. "The Seas are Glorious-Magnificent-Tremendous. God be praised that I have yet the vision to see these things...