Word: carrier
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...parachutes floated Apollo to a splashdown in the Pacific about 7,000 yards away from the carrier Yorktown, where recovery helicopters spotted the capsule's beacon flashing in the predawn darkness. It was 10:51 a.m. (E.S.T.), just eleven seconds earlier than the mission's predicted splashdown time, and precisely 147 hours after Apollo 8's spectacular launch from its Cape Kennedy launching...
...cheese after all: "It's made out of American cheese." Standing happily on the deck of the Yorktown, Borman posed a quickly solved mystery: although Lovell and Anders had full growths of beards, the Apollo 8 commander was clean-shaven, On the short flight from Apollo to the carrier, he had used an electric razor provided by the helicopter pilot...
Heavy Costs. Hearst's victory was not cheap. Strikers followed carrier boys on their routes, noted houses taking the paper, later claimed to have talked 125,000 subscribers into canceling. They persuaded 200 news dealers to stop selling the paper, smashed hundreds of Herald-Examiner vending machines. In all, circulation dropped from 730,000 to 540,000, at a cost to Hearst of about $2,000,000. Advertisements for the year slipped about 7,000,000 lines behind the year before, a loss of at least $7,000,000. Hearst was forced to lower his ad rates, probably losing...
...picking the winner, President Johnson went along with many-but not all-of the original recommendations. Probably the greatest gainer was Los Angeles-based Continental Airlines, only the eleventh biggest U.S. airline. Its new runs to Samoa, Micronesia, Australia and New Zealand will make it a sizable inter national carrier. Another big gainer was TWA, which was awarded rights to fly from the U.S. to Hong Kong, Taiwan and other places. By linking its new Pacific runs with its existing transatlantic ones, which go as far as Hong Kong, TWA will become a round-the-world air line...
...tendencies. He entered Stanford in 1920, but left after five years of intermittent attendance and no degree. In New York, he worked briefly for the American and was fired because he seemed incapable of recording facts without rhapsodizing or sermonizing. He then worked for a time as a hod carrier, returned to California and became a caretaker of a lodge in the Sierras. There he completed his first novel, Cup of Gold, which appeared...