Word: capes
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...captain's cabin of the U.S.S. Observation Island off Cape Canaveral one afternoon, when an exultant Rear Admiral William Raborn Jr. congratulated his skippers on the first successful firing of a Polaris missile from a submerged submarine, only one newsman was present. He was Miami Bureau Chief William Shelton, one of only two reporters who have covered every major missile shot in the Cape's history...
...into the thin, cold reaches of space, the first ballistic missile ever to be fired from a submerged submarine swung surely toward the south and east. Polaris, named for the mariner's bright pole star, needed no such guidance now. Brief seconds after it broached the water off Cape Canaveral last week and screamed down the Atlantic missile range, it was on its own-and it was on target...
Fragrant Memory. Raborn got his program moving at flank speed. Somehow, in record time, every phase of the mission had to be worked out in theory and tested in practice. Dummy birds of everything from redwood to cement were fired at installations from San Clemente Island to Cape Canaveral. There were test shots from a converted Mariner-class ship, Observation Island. There were tethered shots, shots that were grabbed by hooks, and buoyant birds netted in the water. All helped give basic information...
...last quarter, archery bored her, and in another she played poor tennis: "Tennis! Oh, forty-love! Well, for your information, they are not batting tennis balls at Cape Canaveral." To Charlene, the school's insistence that physical and mental education count equally seemed an echo of the old notion ("back in the days of outdoor privies") that Britain won its wars on the playing fields of Eton. "Live in our world of 1960," she urged as she cited such "notoriously poor athletes" as Edison and Einstein. "This might come as a great shock...
...nearly twice as many people had watched NBC as CBS, with ABC far out of the running. CBS, on the defensive in its long-held top position in TV news, had at least one slim consolation: it scored an exclusive interview with the expectant Jacqueline Bouvier Kennedy on a Cape Cod lawn 3,000 miles from the gavel...