Word: launch
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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American submarines can launch 656 missiles, while Soviet undersea craft have fewer than 80 missiles in their nu clear magazines...
...Americans." Briton Hadden: born in Brooklyn to a prosperous banking family, wanted to become a professional baseball player but wasn't that good; mischievous, mercurial and iconoclastic. After they met, and competed, at both Hotchkiss and Yale, they performed the extraordinary feat of raising $85,675 to launch their magazine. It was Hadden who developed TIME style, in its early incarnation an extraordinary idiom, at once economical, vivid, infuriating and occasionally poetic. While Luce managed the business end, Hadden edited, with a carefully annotated translation of Homer's Iliad by his side; in the back cover...
...fighter pilot who later barnstormed with his wife as wing-walker. Wally himself soloed at 16, and went into naval aviation soon after graduation from Annapolis. He flew 90 combat missions in Korea, shot down one MIG and scored one "possible." On the first unsuccessful attempt to launch Gemini 6, when the Titan booster belched smoke and flames without lifting off, Schirra correctly decided that there was no danger of an explosion. He made a split-second decision not to damage the spacecraft by pulling the seat-ejection ring. A few days later, Gemini 6, still intact, carried him aloft...
...separation of the first stage, and the ignition of the second stage into full view of the TV audience. Seconds later viewers also saw the dramatic jettisoning of the Apollo escape tower, which arced high above the spacecraft before plummeting back toward earth. Finally, about 10½ min. after launch, out of IGOR's range, Apollo 7, still attached to the second-stage Saturn 4B rocket, glided into an orbit 140 miles high at perigee and 174 miles at apogee -remarkably close to the programmed 142-by 176-mile orbit. "We're having a ball." Schirra reported happily...
...Angeles, two Negro civil rights workers, Robert Hall and Lou Smith, borrowed $1,000 to launch a job-training project. To provide the facilities, they started a service station, a clothing shop, and a firm that sells African-style garments to The May Co. and Bullock's department stores. "We want to create economic black power," says Hall, describing his plans to share profits with his 82 employees. "We want the people of the community to own everything we start...