Word: launch
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...City Council was reported prepared to launch a full-scale investigation in an attempt to learn if any of the state's anti-discrimination laws had been broken...
...date, the French have conducted their tests in the Algerian Sahara, but under the Evian agreements they must get out by mid-1967. The new site will be a 250,000-acre, twelve-mile-wide strip along the French Guiana coast to be rilled out with rows of launch cranes, quarters for technicians and a master command post. The French government has allotted an initial $60 million, and French agents are shopping in French-speaking Caribbean islands for 5,000 workers. Construction on what has already been nicknamed Cape de Gaulle is to start late next year, and France...
...Human history," wrote H. G. Wells, "becomes more and more a race between education and catastrophe." The race is vividly symbolized in 15 buried capsules, scattered below the prairies of western South Dakota and manned by pairs of launch control officers for Minuteman intercontinental missiles...
...difference is the academic schedule, which has to fit the students' erratic hours. The library at Minuteman U. is open day and night, all week. The students attend classes, between duty days, in two low white buildings overlooking snow-dusted fields dotted with horses and cows. Since the launch control officers are half-time students, they will take 3½ to four years to get a degree...
...back," he hallooed from the launch that whisked him off to federal pen on Washington's McNeil Island in 1962. Last week, 41 Ibs. lighter, erstwhile Teamster Boss Dave Beck completed 30 months of his five-year term for faking tax returns and put-putted back to civilization. Obviously he had taken McNeil's Eng. Lit. course, "I have returned," pronounced Beck, who plans to indulge his old fancy for real estate and possibly write his memoirs to vindicate his minority view that he is "not guilty, and I hope that if what I'm saying...