Word: launch
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...hard-tops (the industry term for indoor, non-drive-in theaters) built in the past two years, approximately 65 are located in shopping centers, and another 50 will probably be in operation by early 1963. General Drive-In Corp. of Boston, which helped launch the boom in drive-ins after World War II, began switching to shopping-center hard-tops when it opened one of the first in 1951 at the Framingham, Mass., Shoppers' World. It now has ten shopping-center houses flourishing from Florida to Massachusetts, and 20 more under construction or on the board...
...novel can at least be a tolerable companion; a mediocre short story is merely a bore. But a writer who masters the form hears only the faintest of applause; his publisher wants to know when he is going to turn out a novel. Collections of short stories once helped launch such writers as Hemingway and Katherine Anne Porter, but these days short stories are worth little in royalties and less in prestige. Irwin Shaw, for instance, is known less as one of the country's best short-story writers than as one of its least distinguished novelists...
...space exploration got a setback last week when the $10 million, gold-and chrome-plated Ranger V moon probe ran out of electric power before it neared the moon. The launch was perfect, but the spacecraft's solar-powered electric system did not deliver the necessary juice. After 8 hr. 44 min. of flight, Ranger V went dead. Though it may pass close to its target, it will be able to make no observations. Ten more Rangers are scheduled for the vital duty of exploring the moon by instrument before men try to land there...
...Pearson helped launch Andover Theological Seminary, which soon turned town and gown into what Student Oliver Wendell Holmes (1825) called "the very dove's nest of Puritan faith." Great preachers flocked there; on Andover Hill was written My Country 'Tis of Thee. Shunning Unitarian Harvard, the school became such a solid Yale "feeder" that in the 1920s Andover men comprised 10% of many a Yale class...
...correspondent mainly covering the Pacific war on its battlegrounds, stayed overseas after V-J day as Shanghai bureau chief, reporting the collapse of the Nationalist Chinese; returning home, he was appointed editor in 1950 of LIFE'S fortnightly edition sent abroad, a post in which he helped launch LIFE EN ESPAÑOL and last year the Italian-language monthly PANORAMA, sponsored jointly by Time Inc. and Mondadori...