Word: ende
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Carter is to pull his presidency out of its nosedive and have a fighting chance of being renominated and re-elected in 1980, he will have to come down from the Catoctin Mountains with a dramatic answer to that question because at week's end the explanation for the Camp David mystery seemed to be nothing more-or less-than a spectacular display of White House ineptitude, followed by a desperate, last-gasp scramble to salvage something from the wreckage. By all indications from Administration aides, Carter canceled his energy speech because he realized, only 30 hours before...
...group of Soviet officials, Byrd cautioned that Moscow would "not contribute to a constructive discussion of the treaty" by expecting the Senate to be the White House's rubber stamp. Byrd was presumably alluding to Soviet Foreign Minister Andrei Gromyko's statement that it would be the "end of negotiations" if the Senate amended SALT II. Byrd also advised the Soviets not to be offended by the rhetoric that will be sounded during the SALT debate. Said he: "The conscientious application of our constitutional process [should not be viewed] as a challenge to the Soviet Union...
...Pennsylvania's Three Mile Island. The mysterious cracks emerging in engine mountings of the DC-10 jumbo jets had led to the grounding of the fleet and America's most tragic air disaster. Now a giant spacecraft, crippled at birth six years ago, is plunging toward a premature end which its creators have no way to prevent...
...sides. At an altitude of about 28 miles, the spent rockets will be dropped by parachute into the sea, where they can be recovered and towed back to shore for another launch. But the big tank will be carried almost all the way up, then cut loose. Tumbling end over end, it should burn up in the atmosphere, although a few pieces may plunge into the ocean. Finally the shuttle continues to fire its own engines to ease itself into orbit at elevations of 115 to 690 miles, typically 175 miles...
That may be more than a year behind schedule, and certainly much too late for Apollo 11 's birthday party. But in contrast to the end of Skylab, it should be a fitting follow-up to that memorable first step a decade...