Word: eights
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...space programs, and NASA has no spare funds to order additional Atlases. The bigger space vehicles that NASA has under development will not be ready for launching for more than a year: Vega (Atlas plus upper stages) in 1961, Centaur (Atlas plus more powerful upper stages) in 1962, Saturn (eight Jupiters clustered together) in 1963, Nova (giant single-chamber rocket) in the mid-1960s...
Domestic Matters. After the assembly voted 51 to 10 to debate the truth about Hungary, New Zealand's Sir Leslie Munro, the U.N.'s special representative on the Hungarian question, reported that eight Hungarian patriots have been secretly tried and executed recently and "there is imminent possibility of further executions." Sir Leslie noted with scathing constraint that the Communists barred him from visiting Budapest on grounds that the 1956 uprising was "a matter of domestic jurisdiction," yet continued to spread the "fanciful" and contradictory story that "the uprising was instigated by foreign powers...
...week's end, Nikita Khrushchev returned to Moscow from a brief Black Sea vacation, and made it back from Moscow's airport to the Kremlin courtyard in an eight-seat Soviet helicopter, which he pronounced "roomier and more comfortable" than Ike's Sikorsky. Next on Khrushchev's travel plans: a flight to Budapest to attend that mockery of "domestic jurisdiction," the Hungarian Communist Party Congress...
...Khoroshy Chelovek." In the last five years of the Fourth Republic, while other diplomats in Paris tended to write off the Hermit of Colombey-les-Deux-Eglises, Vinogradov told his staff, "Some day he will be back." On eight different occasions, he sought out the general for private interviews, usually at the office De Gaulle inhabited on his weekly visits to Paris. Each time, Vinogradov noted the general's growing impatience with NATO and his obsession with the steady decline of French prestige. After De Gaulle was swept back into power, Vinogradov's own prestige soared. "Khoroshy chelovek...
...occasion was the 138th anniversary of Panama's independence from Spain, and cooler heads tried to confine it to a university-sponsored sovereignty rally in a plaza eight blocks from the Canal Zone. But even before the first moderate speaker could finish, 200 well-organized rioters took over. They drowned out the speaker with screams of "Viva Russia!" "Viva Fidel Castro!" and "To the Zone!", charged out of the square. Outflanking Panamanian National Guardsmen, they rushed across Fourth of July Avenue (the zone border) and rammed a flagstaff into soft Canal Zone earth. "All right, now," said...