Word: launch
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Kettering's senior physics master, Geoffrey Perry, began to suspect the existence of a new Russian launch site last March after his teen-age students recorded signals from the newly launched Cosmos 112 reconnaissance satellite and plotted its orbit. Instead of being inclined to the equator at 65°-the inclination angle of earlier Cosmos orbits-112's orbital path had an angle of 72°. Also, the satellite had been launched at a later time of day than previous Cosmos shots and had returned to earth after 122 revolutions, instead of the usual 124. In a letter...
...later Cosmos shots, 114 and 121, had orbits inclined at 73°, strengthening Perry's belief that rockets were being launched from a new site. But their paths were too nearly parallel to Cosmos 112's to calculate precisely where their initial orbits all intersected over Russia - which would be the location of the launch site. The Russians themselves provided the needed data in October with the flight of Cosmos 129. Though its orbital inclination was 64.57°, it was launched later in the day than typical 65° Cosmos satellites and landed only 6¾ days later...
Often the purpose is to launch a new enterprise. Manhattan Adman Burt Pence, 28, and Lawyer Todd Merer, 27, invited 2,000 guests to a party in Greenwich Village last week with the theme, "Sin and Soul in the Seventies," featuring a "monster happening" at midnight with a recording of Kate Smith singing The Star-Spangled Banner, a karate exhibition, and chorines in fluorescent tights and gas masks. The party grossed $5,500, and its profits will go to finance a boutique the pair hopes to open. If they don't have enough for that, they will...
...owner wasn't around enough to keep track of the operation. A small manufacturer of plastics and draperies failed because he priced his products below cost. Even though he had undergone one bankruptcy before, Chicago Taxi Driver Lawrence Young persuaded the SBA to lend him $19,500 to launch a Chicken Delight carry-out shop. It subsequently foundered to the extent that the agency lost $14,000 even after auctioning the fixtures for $5,000. Young, now working as a janitor, blames his misfortune partly on his failure to attend the SBA's free courses...
...Gulf of Tonkin resolution which authorizes all necessary measures to repel North Vietnamese aggression. Along with his colleagues on the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, McCarthy has attacked American foreign policy in Latin America--particularly in the Dominican Republic. In addition, he has been trying for years to launch an investigation into the operations of the Central Intelligence Agency and to obtain greater Congressional control of its activities...