Word: launch
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...routine overhaul at Norfolk's huge (35 admirals on duty) Navy complex, is the 60,000-ton carrier Forrestal, most powerful ship afloat, preparing to join the fleet in the fall as the Navy's champion of nuclear striking power. She is designed to land and launch bombers, e.g., the Douglas A-3-D, which can carry city-razing payloads at more than 600 m.p.h...
Gerry Mulligan Quartet-Paris Concert (Pacific Jazz). One of the most original spirits of the modern school and the man whose well-formed improvisations helped launch so-called West Coast jazz (TIME, Feb. 1, 1954). Baritone Saxophonist Mulligan cajoles his brutish instrument into some sweet and swinging solos and some tenderly twined duets with Bob Brookmeyer's valve trombone. As always, Mulligan brooks no piano...
...have been knocking at the Administration door all year," said Council President Edward M. Abramson '57, "but until now the time has not been right. Since the University is about to launch a $40 million all out fund raising campaign," he added, however, "the time now appears to be right...
Frail, dark-haired Henri Petiot returned from Rome to Paris last week with a new papal award, and just in time to launch the most prodigious project of his prodigious career-a brand-new, 150-volume encyclopedia of the Roman Catholic faith. Few have heard of Henri Petiot, ex-schoolteacher. But under his pen name of Daniel-Rops, who in France has not? "Le Bestseller," they call him, and they read his books into record-breaking editions, go to his lectures by the hundreds, buy his magazines by the thousands...
...South Dakota in the Black Hills mining town of Terry, near the site where Calamity Jane died. When Phil was six, his father Ernest, an engineer who had tried mining and farming in South Dakota and Michigan with no luck, took the family to the Florida Everglades to launch an ambitious agricultural experiment for a sugar company. After a dozen years of floods, muck fires, hurricanes, frost and insects, the company wrote off the experiment as a loss and let Manager Graham keep as much of the land as he could pay taxes on. He began dairy farming. During...