Word: iii
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Cape Canaveral Kennedy saw the towering, 2,800-ton service structure that will eventually house the Saturn III, the most powerful space vehicle yet off U.S. drawing boards. At the George C. Marshall Space Flight Center at Huntsville, Ala.. Rocket Expert Wernher von Braun gave the President a 30-second static test blast from one of the Saturn booster engines. Von Braun pointed to a huge first-stage booster (prone, but pretty impressive all the same). Said he: "This is the vehicle designed to fulfill your promise to put a man on the moon in this decade." He paused...
...Francisco is a pastel city; Caracas is gaudily bright. And Paris, for generations, has been elephant grey. But the grime that made it grey is vanishing in a flurry of scrubbing that would shame a Baltimore housewife. Reason: a law passed by Napoleon III in 1852. decreeing that all buildings in Paris should be cleaned every decade, has finally gone into effect...
Star over Du Quoin, III...
...special representative. General Watson, in a complex chain of command from the Pentagon and the State Department, can hardly make a move without clearing it in advance with Washington. Like the men under him. he lives with the somber instructions that a single rash decision could trigger World War III...
...come to within three miles of each other in space, but had not attempted an actual rendezvous because it was not a part of their assignment. Both spaceships were slightly roomier than those used by Yuri Gagarin and Gherman Titov, but the suspicions of U.S. scientists that Vostoks III and IV weighed approximately the same as the earlier models-some 11,000 lbs.-were confirmed. His craft "was designed for one person," declared Nikolayev. Though Tass had left the impression that the two cosmonauts had ridden their capsules all the way to the ground, both spacemen said that they...