Word: climbed
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...considered for the nomination, Kennedy ran in seven, piled up majorities in all of them (only two of them, Wisconsin and West Virginia, were real contests). His showing proved that his Roman Catholicism was an asset rather than a liability, helped his hardboiled campaign to persuade Democratic politicians to climb aboard his bandwagon lest they get left behind...
...with conventional antisub weapons. But on the Norfolk's afterdeck a clumsy-looking box swung like a gun turret. A section of it tilted, doors popped open, and with a screaming roar a slender rocket slanted upward, trailing a feather of flame. Near the top of the climb the engine section separated, and as the missile curved down toward the sea, two more pieces fell off, releasing a small parachute to check its speed. When the missile hit the water, it freed itself from the parachute, turned itself into an acoustically guided torpedo and darted toward the Skate...
Reckoning (CBS, 7:30-8:30 p.m.).* A rerun of the 1958 Studio One drama, The Lonely Stage, starring Mary Astor as a grande dame of the theater who suddenly discovers herself desperately in need of the loved ones she discarded during her climb to fame...
More of Everything. Milan last week was the pace setter in the astonishing postwar boom that has enabled the storied country of palaces, cathedrals and antiquities to climb in industrial production to third place in Western Europe. Nearly 500,000 cars throng the streets, which are wide by Italian standards and spotlessly clean by any standards. Traffic moves faster and with better discipline than in anarchic Rome, yet the accident rate is higher. The Milanese have an explanation: local drivers and pedestrians are so engrossed in important affairs that they often forget to look where they are going...
...case, the missiles at a base cannot be fired in salvo. Each must wait its turn-and during the wait an enemy hit may wipe out the base itself. All future U.S. missiles will be inertially guided. Since they will be self-contained, an unlimited number of them can climb into space at the same instant, each carrying instructions to fly to a different target, and each bearing the self-containing wherewithal for devastating accuracy...