Word: launch
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Revenge for Hedda. Next day, Hedda got her revenge when a reporter asked if she had launched more movie stars than Elsa. Snapped Hedda: "The only thing Elsa knows how to launch are boats." The big party reached its climax with a dinner for 125 cosmopolites, at which island dancers and singers performed for the guests and Hedda announced grandly that she would try to land them Hollywood contracts...
...long-nosed rocket that rose from its pad at Cape Canaveral last week contained the most practical crew of explorers yet launched into space: a three-part package of instrument-crammed satellites. Heftiest part of the load (175 lbs.) was Transit IVA, latest of the Navy's navigation satellites, which looked like a bass drum spangled with bright solar cells and patches of white paint. Perched on top of it like the gobs of a three-scoop ice cream cone were a polished aluminum sphere, the Naval Research Laboratory's Greb III solar radiation satellite, and a smaller...
...distant Acropolis) at Jackie's disposal. While Jackie and her friends sunned and swam at the villa, units of the Greek navy patrolled the sea. a mile offshore, waving off intruders. When chartered yachts, full of newsmen, came too close, an excitable officer aboard a navy launch waved and shouted, "Not stop here! Not stop here! Mrs. Kennedy!" The helmsman left his wheel to join the shouting, and the launch crashed grandly into one of the press yachts for emphasis...
...containing dehydrated coffee or fruit juice, so that the weightless spacemen can drink by squeezing the liquids into their mouths. Built under Air Force contract, the Space Kitchen weighs 818 lbs., of which only 236 lbs. is food. But as of now, there is no rocket big enough to launch a kitchen-equipped spaceship...
...student in Social Solutions 100 Field Work in Mental Health, helped launch Wellmet, the "half-way house" for mental patients about ready to return to normal life. Three or four students living with a small group of patients help to approximate as much as possible the life the patients will soon be leading on the outside...