Word: launch
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...member of a small group of anti-Castro exiles who call themselves Alpha 66. A few days later, a 36-ft. grey and white motorboat slipped through the predawn darkness into the north coast Cuban port of Caibarién, 210 miles southeast of Havana. Navigating by compass, the launch found its way to the San Pascual, an old Cuban steamer grounded on a concrete base and used as a molasses storehouse. A machine gun chattered, and a burst of .50-caliber slugs ripped into the cabin; an explosion split the night. The launch drew up beside a second ship...
...million Tresidder Memorial Union, a handsome hacienda that does wonders for the university's architecture, which is mostly a blend of Early Southern Pacific and Neo-Romanesque. "Our motto is coffee and culture," glows Director Chester A. Berry, 46. Just for a start. Berry will soon launch "Project Da Vinci"-stuffing Tresidder with Leonardo's notebooks, reproductions of his sketches and 35 working models of his inventions...
...temporary roundup of pictures borrowed for a single showing, "Art: USA: Now" is the collection bought last spring by waxmakers S. C. Johnson & Son, Inc. This month the firm will launch the $750,000 show on what promises to be one of the longest and farthest-flung tours in the history of painting. Says Company Chairman Herbert F. Johnson: "Our interest in this project might be described as a sort of act of faith in American art." American Express. After its opening at the Milwaukee Art Center on Sept. 21, the show will make a second debut in Vienna...
Last week, on Cape Canaveral's Launch Pad No. 12, Mariner II also seemed doomed. The countdown was halted three times to allow technicians to examine malfunctions. When the spacecraft finally rose above its flaming tail and disappeared into the warm darkness, preliminary tracking data from Johannesburg indicated that Mariner might miss Venus by some 600,000 mile's-too large an error to be corrected by its mid-course steering motor...
Manner, in order to make a pass at Venus, must travel more than 180 million miles in a curving trajectory (see diagram), even though Earth and Venus are only 69 million miles apart at time of launch...