Word: frees
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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There were also additional risks. Apollo 12, like Apollo 11 and 10, started its space voyage on a "free return" trajectory toward the moon. In the event of engine failure, such a path would allow the spacecraft to be whipped around the moon by lunar gravity and hurled back safely to the earth. Some 31 hours after liftoff, however, Apollo 12's situation was changed drastically. Conrad fired the 20,500-lb.-thrust service propulsion engine and sent his ship into a "hybrid" trajectory. The new flight path was necessary to set the astronauts down at their landing site...
...M.P.s who support the Syndicate cause plan this week to take their places on opposition benches. There was a strong probability that they would form an alliance with the 42 delegates of the free-enterprising Swatantra
Indira was probably happy to be rid of the conservative bosses, whom she blames for the party's decline. "The people are clamoring for a faster pace," she said recently. "Congress has not been keeping pace with the changing times and the new generation." Free of the foot dragging of the Syndicate, which is composed largely of aging men, Indira now has the opportunity to mold the party into a more attractive-and constructive-political force...
...Smith, the Prime Minister of Rhodesia's all-white government, which rules a black majority, declared last week that his country was growing stronger despite the United Nations sanctions against it. Though U.N. member states are supposed to boycott Rhodesian exports, Smith claimed that many countries of the free world were quietly helping Rhodesia. On the fourth anniversary of the unilateral declaration of independence from Britain, Smith said that Rhodesia expects a 10% increase this year in its gross national product, "exceptional by any standard." But British Foreign Secretary Michael Stewart recently told the House of Commons that Rhodesia...
...disillusioned former commune member who writes: "If the intentional community hopes to survive, it must be authoritarian, and if it is authoritarian, it offers no more freedom than conventional society. I am not pleased with this conclusion, but it now seems to me that the only way to be free is to be alone...