Word: launch
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...another development, the John W. Perdew Fund will launch a door-to-door campaign tonight to raise money for Perdew's legal defense. Dean Monro last night called the fund drive "extremely important," since he and other observers are convinced Georgia officials are determined to convict Perdew and the other students...
Choose Your Flag. Elected in 1957 to succeed a military junta, Villeda Morales made a start on agrarian reform, got $11.6 million in Alliance for Progress aid and used it to launch a modest development plan to educate his 1,950,000 people, build roads and attract new industry. Personally popular and staunchly antiCommunist, he kept Honduran far leftists at arm's length, helped labor clean out Red infiltrators. "I am asking you," he once told a labor rally, "to choose between Communism and democracy, between the blue and white flag of Honduras and the red flag of Russia...
...mesa outside the town of Blanding, Utah, climbed above the earth's atmosphere and arced to bull's-eye landings in impact areas at the heavily instrumented White Sands Missile Range in New Mexico, some 350 miles to the southeast. Later this month, the Air Force will launch the first of some 80 Athena rockets from Green River, Utah, to White Sands, a span of almost 500 miles. The Athenas, toting experimental nose cones are expected to provide valuable data on re-entry problems...
...Pershing shots, 16 families who live in a 15-mile zone in front of the launching site were evacuated to hotels and fed at Government expense. For each of the Green River tests, nearly 1,000 people will have to be moved. Residents of the corridors over which the missiles fly are unaffected, since scientists insist that the odds against a mishap are astronomical once the big birds have achieved their ballistic trajectories. But merely evacuating residents from the launch areas and the spots where boosters are likely to fall can be a costly business; for the year alone...
...occasionally fill it with X rays, ultraviolet and erratically curving streams of high-energy particles. No one knows how to forecast these tempests in space, or how to keep them from killing unshielded spacemen. If manned lunar spacecraft must be protected by heavy shielding, the rockets that launch them will have to be made bigger, and this will cause change and long delay all down the line...