Word: capes
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Gordon Cooper and Charles Conrad took some pictures to show the folks back home. The first photos released last week made a spectacular space travelogue, exceptionally clear and well-defined. From more than 150 miles up, the astronauts were able to get detailed shots of the launch pads at Cape Kennedy, the sharp relief of mountains and deserts, and incredible sights of underwater coral reefs (see color pages). The more than 1,000 pictures that they took with four cameras* demonstrated anew the potential of space photography for scientific and military applications...
Lift-off from Cape Kennedy, when it finally came, was timed to the second. The countdown clock had not been stopped once−a truly remarkable demonstration of cooperation between men and intricate machines. Rising above its roaring tail in textbook exactitude, the booster flung its capsule aloft with a heart-stopping burst of power. Ahead were eight orbital days−eight days that would, if all went well, teach man more than he had ever known before about the problems and possibilities of flight in space...
HYANNIS, MASS., Cape Cod Melody Tent: Again, it's West Side Story, Leonard Bernstein's crossbreeding of Romeo and Juliet and Hell's Kitchen...
...executive producer of ABC's Peyton Place, needed Mia Farrow's cruise like a hole in the hull. For one thing, Peyton Place had all the voyeur interest it needed on-screen without any help from off-screen publicity. For another, even before all the headlines from Cape Cod, Peyton Place's ratings were about as high as they could go. "Realistic Escapism." When Peyton Place was first announced for the 1964-65 season, the industry wondered if ABC programming had been taken over by some kind of nut. The network was not only gambling on soap...
Sense of Secrecy. There is good geographical reason for the decision. U.S. spaceships are over water as soon as they take off from Cape Kennedy; they must be equipped for emergency water landings anyway. To add parasail equipment would take up valuable weight and space. Russian engineers, on the other hand, launch their spacecraft over broad stretches of land; thus they have concentrated on ground landings. Besides, the Soviet sense of secrecy makes them want to bring down their capsules on Soviet soil, not international waters...