Word: captains
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...take any flight that comes along," said the crew-cut Navy captain. "The sooner I get off the ground the better." Alan Shepard Jr.'s eagerness was understandable. Exactly eight years ago last week, he had blasted off aboard the Freedom 7 Mercury capsule to become the nation's first man in space. But an inner-ear ailment grounded him late in 1964 and he has been holding down a NASA desk job ever since. Now after surgery, Shepard, 45, has been pronounced fit for space travel once again, possibly aboard a moon-bound Apollo sometime next year...
When Thomas Wolfe wrote those lines in 1935, the ocean liner was a way of life. Presidents and prime ministers, poets and kings, actors and novelists, rode the great ships between the Western continents. Rockefellers, Astors, and Vanderbilts wore white tie and tails to the captain's gala, nibbled caviar in the lounges and sipped champagne on the promenade decks, their long-gowned ladies at their sides. A maiden voyage was an epochal social event...
...TIME, Jan. 10). The sleek vessel cut through choppy seas without so much as a tinkle of ice cubes in highball glasses. Computers charted a flawless course, and satellites monitored her position. "I'm sorry I have nothing dramatic to tell you," said the ship's master, Captain William Warwick, a former relief captain for both the Queen Mary and the first Queen Elizabeth. "But what's there to say when everything goes so well...
...expecting much trouble from Dartmouth," Harvard tennis captain John Levin had said Monday night, "but we're going to play as though we were...
Senior Rocky Jarvis, the Crimson's poised, steady number two man, quickly put away Green captain Dave Burwell in straight sets, outmaneuvering him easily with an impeccable backcourt game...