Word: launch
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Proletarian swimmers cannot go beyond a line of buoys about 30 yards from shore; if they do, a police launch waves them back to prevent a possible escape to an occasional Greek or Italian ship that puts in at the Durres harbor. When a West German ship arrived carrying badly needed Canadian wheat−paid for by Peking−it was not allowed into the harbor at all; the cargo was laboriously transferred by launch. Although Albania has 250 miles of Adriatic coastline, fish are scarce because the regime permits only a handful of politically trustworthy fishermen to venture...
...testimony of a disgruntled former employee named Menhart Spielman, who last March filed a charge of attempted murder against his ex-boss and one of his cronies. A few weeks later, Spielman disappeared from Manila. The government alleges that he was bludgeoned to death on a motor launch on the Sulu Sea, is prosecuting for murder three Moro seamen, a business associate of Stonehill's, and "John, Robert, Richard and Peter...
Unmanned exploration of the moon itself is the job of NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, Calif. Mostly because of launch difficulties, none of the JPL's first four Ranger spacecraft has yet sent usable data back from the moon. But the next two are almost finished, and JPL considers them much superior to their predecessors. The job of Ranger 5 will be to land (at 100 m.p.h.) a package of tough instruments on the moon. A temperature-sensing device will report the moon's horribly hot and cold climate over a tiny radio...
...Dover surf into the arms of his frisky German fiancee with a new record of sorts: he was the first man to swim the English Channel underwater. For 18 hr. 1 min. the former U.S. Army film director submarined along 15 feet beneath the surface, accompanied by a launch and encased in a steel cage that kept the aqualunged swimmer from drifting off course. Said the feisty Floridian, who prepped for his 22-mile swim by traversing the Straits of Messina's Scylla and Charybdis: "I've given up two years of my life. I'm broke...
...Angeles has been struggling for years against smog and a stigma of cultural inferiority. Only the smog remains. As a vote of confidence, Producer David Merrick will launch the long-awaited British musical Oliver at the Philharmonic Auditorium in August. And this year Playbill, which prints all Broadway programs, started a Los Angeles edition...