Word: capes
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Grande to Cape Horn in one barriers-down trading area. The new market's population (243 million) would be greater than that of either the U.S. or the European Common Market, and its gross national product would be an impressive $75 billion...
...NEWS INQUIRY: CROSSROADS IN SPACE (NBC, 10-11 p.m.). A detailed report on the origin, development and present status of NASA, including a sharp examination of the pros and cons of moving the manned space center from Cape Kennedy to Houston. Frank McGee interviews NASA's top administrators as well as critics of the space program...
After three futile attempts to find Chichester, the group gave it one last try. They could not have picked a worse day. They flew through a driving rainstorm and gale winds; the ceiling was 600 feet. But 20 miles south of the Cape, they finally spotted Chichester, making about eight knots under a jib that looked the size of a bath towel. Huddled under the storm cover in the cockpit, Chichester waved. Fuenzalida made six passes at 60 feet. Luton was so excited that he recorded a complete commentary before he noticed that he had no tape in his recorder...
...performance that it completed nine of the ten manned missions precisely as planned and McDonnell collected a $25 million bonus. "McDonnell's engineers always seemed to be on top of the problem," says NASA Flight Director Chris Kraft. As often as not, Mr. Mac himself would turn up at Cape Kennedy for a 3 a.m. breakfast with departing astronaut crews. To help him recall who was who, he invariably carried a small black notebook crammed with the names of wives, children?and even their dogs. "Mr. Mac is an anachronism," says NASA's Paul Haney. "There's a measured cadence...
...characters are all united by money-not the new vulgar stuff that was extruded by the bull markets of the '50s and '60s, but the old stable commodity collected in the Civil War. It is the kind of money that nourished Manhattan town houses, cottages at the Cape, boxes at the Met, and others at Woodlawn or Sleepy Hollow cemeteries...