Word: launch
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...unknown has led him to the highest mountains and the deepest ocean trenches, the most impenetrable jungles and the most forbidding deserts. This week it promises to lead him across the vacuum of space to another world. At Cape Kennedy, a 363-ft. moon rocket stood ready to launch three American astronauts on man's first attempt to set foot on the surface of another celestial body. If the bold attempt is successful, the journey will be remembered as long as the human race endures. It will open a new age of exploration, one that may ultimately reach...
Television sets will be available for watching Wednesday's Apollo launch at Matthews 6, the second floor of the Union, and in the Holmes Hall common room...
...system proposed by the President and Defense Secretary Melvin Laird is designed primarily to protect U.S. offensive missiles against surprise attack, and also to provide a measure of defense for U.S. cities if an enemy should launch a few missiles at them by accident or by design. Strategically, the argument for the project is that if an ABM defense guaranteed the survival of enough missiles to inflict prohibitive damage on an attacker's homeland, the aggressor would be deterred from risking the first strike...
...opponents are not convinced. Among the most outspoken is an M.I.T. triumvirate-Jerome Wiesner, who was scientific adviser to President Kennedy; George Rathjens, recently of the U.S. Arms Control and Disarmament Agency; and Steven Weinberg, a physicist. In a critique released last week, the trio argued "In order to launch a first strike of the sort envisioned by Secretary Laird, the Soviets would need SS-9s with extraordinary accuracy and high reliability; they would need to solve the problem of coordinating an attack on our bombers and Minutemen; they would need to deal with our nuclear-armed tactical aircraft; they...
...study group is pessimistic about S.F. State-and any other U.S. college headed for the same vortex. The group urges California officials to launch "a thorough review of the whole spectrum of present educational policy, especially as to admission qualifications and content of curriculum." Better communication among the different elements of the college is also vital: "Steps must be taken to bring president, faculty and students truly together in critical periods." Without such reforms, said the group, the future is bleak: "An overriding public opinion may force the conversion of San Francisco State and other colleges into screened and guarded...