Word: capes
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Colonel Edward White, 36, and Lieut. Commander Rog- er Chaffee, 31, lay dead in the charred cockpit of a vehicle that was built to hit the moon 239,000 miles away, but never got closer than the tip of a Saturn rocket, 218 ft. above Launching Pad 34 at Cape Kennedy...
Though it happened under circumstances that, theoretically, are no more hazardous than the car ride to the Cape, the fact that Grissom, White and Chaffee lost their lives on the ground has a symbolism all its own. For even more important than the down-played dedication, the casual-seeming courage and the nonchalance under pressure that the astronauts bring to bear in actual flight is the drilled-in professionalism, perfectionism and thoroughness that they must have to master the incredibly intricate tools of their trade. They are heroic pioneers, but they are also brilliant technicians-and they could...
...minor miracle last month when British Yachtsman Francis Chichester, 65, slid into Australia's Sydney harbor after sailing all alone in his 53-ft. ketch Gipsy Moth IV for 14,000 miles from England by way of the Cape of Good Hope. Chichester arrived safe, happy, and exhausted after 105 days at sea. This week, Chichester will set out alone once more, heading for England by way of the perilous route around South America's Cape Horn, whose vicious seas and fickle winds have destroyed many a fully manned vessel. Back home, another old salt, Captain Alan Villiers...
...many as 15 hours a day for the next 21 months, Manchester gathered material, accumulating 45 volumes of tapes, notes and documents. From Cape Cod to Dallas, he conducted 1,000 interviews with 500 people. He spent a day in Gettysburg with Dwight Eisenhower, 31 hours over lunch with Chief Justice Earl Warren. In Dallas, he retraced on foot the route of Kennedy's motorcade. A meticulous reporter, he scoured hungrily for the small details that help illuminate the larger ones: how a flock of pigeons took wing from the roof of the Texas School Book Depository when...
...Roaring Forties. His most formidable obstacle was a stretch of black, tempestuous ocean just east of the Cape in the latitudes known forbiddingly as the "roaring forties." In Moby Dick, Melville described how the Pequod "sharply bowed to the blast" in these storm-tossed waters, with "showers of silver chips" flying over her bulwarks. In the voyages of the clippers, a crew of more than three dozen seasoned hands was needed to keep a vessel from disaster in the roaring forties...