Word: flame
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...flight began flawlessly. On Pad 39A at Cape Kennedy, Fla., Borman, Lovell and Anders lay strapped in the 11-ft. command module that was perched atop a 363-ft. Saturn 5 rocket. With a deafening bellow, the rocket inched upward on a rising pillar of smoke and flame, then spurted off into earth orbit. During its second turn around the planet, it accelerated from 17,400 m.p.h. to 24,200 m.p.h., enough to escape earth's gravitational embrace and send Apollo 8 on the road of night that would lead to the moon. Almost 69 hours after liftoff...
...turned out, the "more inactive" police "were amused by the whole scene, especially since they were under orders not to intervene when they could avoid doing so." In fact, when a demonstrator got caught in the crush, unable to light his cigarette, a bobby "reached forward and politely struck flame from his lighter." The police, she reports, "even joined the demonstrators in singing Auld Lang Syne." All in all, "we witnessed in the Demo something like a medieval carnival in modern setting, with everybody changing places, the fool becoming king for a day, the police merging with the populace...
...from the flame-trench, up from the Launch
After ten days during which 16 explosions rocked the mine and turned its tunnels into blast furnaces of flame, gas and smoke, Consolidation Coal Company's Number 9 in Marion County, W. Va., was sealed last week. That somber decision made the mine a tomb for the 78 men missing in its depths. But company, government and union officials agreed that there was no other way to save the burning mine-and that the trapped men below were almost certainly dead from fire or gas, or both...
Flickering Flame. Birth and Death, as the film is titled, this week provided a powerful start for the Public Broadcast Laboratory's second and possibly last season. A $12,5 million, two-year experiment of the Ford Foundation, PBL was founded to prove that public TV, if adequately financed, could light candles of culture and significance amid the darkness of commercial TV. But during its first year, the flame of PBL flickered disappointingly...