Word: capes
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...first big U.S. rockets came down on dry land at the Army's White Sands Proving Ground in New Mexico's arid Tularosa Basin north of El Paso. But when the Air Force became the principal U.S. rocket-launching agency, it set up shop at Cape Canaveral and flew its long-range missiles over the ocean. The Russians stuck to the land, seem to have found no special difficulty in bringing their spacecraft down on solid ground. Eventually, argues the Holloman Bulletin, the U.S. will have to do the same. Large manned spaceships returning from orbit...
What is unusual, however, is that even when an ambitious attorney general began to enforce the letter of these laws, and consequently to infringe on the occupations and recreation of many people, no action was taken for repeal. Certainly, this summer in his vigorous clampdown on Cape Cod businesses operating on Sunday, and again this fall, in his treatment of entertainments on certain holidays, attorney general Edward J. McCormack, Jr. emphasized better than could any sociological investigators the obsolescence and irrelevance of these laws...
...while because of minor troubles with the capsule's telemetry system. Enos, who is called by his trainers "a meditative chimp," did not seem to mind. Snug in his air-conditioned nest, he waited patiently. At 10:07, the Atlas roared off its pad, climbed above Cape Canaveral and arced toward the northeast. It curved into orbit about 100 miles...
...Groaning Board. At the Cape, the Kennedys disappeared into the family compound, observed Thanksgiving in grey and clammy New England weather. Jacqueline Kennedy gathered Caroline into her lap, described how the Pilgrims had landed 28 miles away at Plymouth Rock.* The Kennedy men watched the Green Bay Packers-Detroit Lions professional football game on television; then, led by Bobby and Ted Kennedy while the President remained idle, they went outside for a brisk period of touch football. The President, his sisters, and brother Ted also drove into Hyannis to the Joseph P. Kennedy Jr. memorial skating rink; all but Jack...
...gaudy tour of Cocoa Beach, the community nearest Cape Canaveral, enraged the citizens of Cocoa Beach but showed the rest of the country the phenomena that spring up around the space age's launching pads: beatniks swinging as if hooked on liquid oxygen, splashy motels by the mile, a real estate agent selling outback lots for $1,595 an acre, a wiggly blonde singing in a nightspot about her A-O.K. flight in a rocket with her spaceman. Then he switched to Britain's cheap-jack sex-and-crime newspapers and an abrasively candid interview with Cecil...