Word: launch
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...have never yet found anyone who could convincingly explain his own definition of these political classifications. "For the Republican Party, 1964 has, of course, a great importance. But it is two years away. 1962 is here-with much work to be done. We are like an army that, to launch a great and effective attack, must fight first for its jump-off line. Our jump-off line is resounding victory in '62-after which we'll be all set for victory in the big campaign...
...first conference (the success) was called, or so the delegates to it imagined, to launch an Alliance for Progress, that is, a program to unite Latin America through social reform and economic development. The second (something of a flop) appeared at first to have a directly opposite purpose--For Cuba, as the State Department saw it, pervades Latin America much as the Devil occupied the New Testament herd of swine, and Mr. Rusk's proposed solution closely resembled the ancient one: to excise the Devil, you drive the herd into...
...chairman-chief executive officer and one vice chair man of the merged line. For top man their choice seems likely to fall on Pennsy Chairman James M. Symes (pronounced Sims), 64, a railroad man all his life. His directors are pressing him to postpone his retirement in order to launch the new line. Central directors will name the president-chief administrative officer of the new road plus a second vice chairman. As a gesture to the Pennsy, Central directors seem ready to tap as president Allen Greenough, 56, currently president of the Pennsylvania. Central President Alfred Perlman, 59, a tough...
...radio energy hundreds of miles from the earth; its receivers catch satellite reflections for quick triangulation and tracking. It has detected space junk as small as a 14-ft. strand of wire from an old satellite. Says Captain Orville Greynolds, a spacetrack officer in Colorado Springs: "No one could launch a space vehicle and keep it a secret. We are positive we have checked and tracked all Russian objects now in space...
...keeping their powder dry. Scarcely had Kirby made his move when the Murchisons sold off to Dallas Millionaire Troy Post for $17.5 million almost all their holdings in Florida's Gulf Life Insurance Co. Immediately, the financial world buzzed with talk that the Murchisons expected Kirby to launch a new proxy war for control of Alleghany and that the brothers planned to use the Gulf Life proceeds to pay off the debts they had incurred in the first Alleghany battle so that they could negotiate new loans if the need arose for them to buy more Alleghany stock...