Word: launch
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...shoulder, fiercely partisan tone reminiscent of left-wing weeklies in the '30s. _ Leading a staff that numbers such onetime left-wingers as James Burnham and Eugene Lyons, Editor Buckley declares ward on "the Liberals, who run this country." Of the 120 backers who put up $290,000 to launch National Review according to Buckley, nobody, "not even myself," owns more than 5% of the magazine's stock. The first issue (30 pages) has gone to 10,000 charter subscribers, plus 30,000 who got promotional copies. Buckley's goal: 100,000 readers...
...companies will soon be asked to report to Flemming on their efforts to cut imports. If the results do not satisfy the Defense Mobilizer, he will reluctantly launch the Government "down a road of regulation which it has never traveled before...
...Soviet Russia are racing to launch the first rocket missile into interplanetary space. But if the statesmen paid more attention to television, they would realize that space adventures are strictly for the birds. Even durable Captain Video has been downgraded to a supporting role in a local show called Wonderama, where he shares billing with a drawing teacher and a cooking instructor. The only planetary wanderer left on the network air is CBS's Captain Midnight, who last week, in the fashion of spacemen everywhere, was locked in combat with the inevitable mad scientist...
Diana's success has brought her a lavish villa on the Thames (private cinema room with leopardskin chairs, floodlit tennis court, aviary), a powder blue Cadillac ("Blue is a wonderful color for blondes; even our lawn mower is blue"), a 50-ft. launch (for moonlight glides up the river), and a monoplane for longer trips...
...launch not one but six to ten satellite "vehicles" in 1957-58. Dr Homer E. Newell of the U.S. Naval Research Laboratory told a Brussels geographical conference last week. The satelites will probably weigh less than 100 lbs., but even if they weigh only 10 Ibs they will be trackable from the earth Any interested party can track them or pick up their radio signals. "The satellites will appear in their orbits," said Dr. Newell "as a gift package from the U.S. Department of Defense...