Word: launch
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Seventh Fleet into the waters off Viet Nam as a "precautionary measure" should it be necessary to protect the lives of Americans. Washington presumably also had in mind a warning to the Communist Viet Cong should it choose political uncertainty in Saigon as an opportunity to launch a major offensive...
...against the Communists. A cautiously optimistic report on the war came last week from Brigadier General Frank A. Osmanski, a U.S. logistics expert in South Viet Nam, who estimated that government forces have stepped up their "intensity of operations" to 21 times what it was a year ago, now launch ten attacks to every one by the Viet Cong. Although the South Vietnamese are suffering more than 1,000 casualties a month, Osmanski added, they are still outkilling the Viet Cong...
...brass had asked him down to hear all about South America's leading space program. Proudly, they explained that right now a mess of mice were being given extensive psychological and physiological tests so that the perfect 4-oz. moustronaut could be selected for the first 50-mile launch atop an Argentine-made rocket some time next year...
...University Health Services plans to launch a campaign to warn students of the dangers of smoking, Dr. Benjamin G. Ferris '40, director of Environmental Health and Safety, said yesterday...
...been the subject of many stories in various sections of the magazine. But for years the editors have pondered and debated the possibility of a separate department on the subject (and actually ran one on an experimental basis for a few weeks back in 1937). This week we launch as a regular part of TIME a section...