Word: champlain
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Brant concedes all this. In rebuttal, he argues that Madison deserved credit for the victory because he pushed through the construction of the heavily armored ships that won the battles on the Great Lakes and Lake Champlain, and backed the rise of young generals such as Winfield Scott, who finally stopped the British armies. Brant blames historians' low opinion of Madison as President on a failure to appreciate his "quiet methods" and "an underestimate of the titanic difficulties heaped on him by the refusal of New England to take part...
...voice itself came over the loudspeaker. It was not clear. He was descending, and the Gs of re-entry were pressing him hard. Every man on the deck scanned the sky. When Freedom 7's big orange-and-white parachute popped open at 10,000 ft., the Lake Champlain came alive with cheers once more. "Damn!" the sailors shouted. "Marvelous...
...Disaster. For the first time in the tensest quarter-hour of his life, Alan Shepard could afford to forget the intricate complex of rescue gear that had been guarding his path from Pad 5 to U.S.S. Lake Champlain. Few men in history have been watched over so cautiously. Long before he blasted off, Astronaut Shepard had become the focus of a vast deployment of equipment and personnel. Everything imaginable had been done to ensure his safety...
Downrange, to the north of Grand Bahama Island, was an even weightier deployment. Circling near the calculated impact area of the Mercury capsule, Lake Champlain bristled with helicopters, and a flotilla of six destroyers strung out along the range. Watching the range with sharp electronic eyes were the swarming radars of Cape Canaveral, and high overhead soared monstrous aircraft burdened with more radars. Neither money, men nor equipment had been spared to protect the life of U.S. Astronaut...
Even after the tedious training paid off in a perfect flight, Shepard's ordeal was not over. "Debriefing" (Pentagonese for careful questioning) began the moment that he landed on Lake Champlain's deck. Doctors hustled Shepard to the admiral's cabin, where they first let him talk away his effervescent enthusiasm. Then, while tape recorders continued to catch every word, they began questions designed to collect scraps of information that the space traveler might have gathered. Relief came when Shepard was summoned to the bridge; President Kennedy was calling by radiophone from Washington...