Word: launch
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...accepting risks that no other insurer would dare, and keeping a wet finger in the shifting winds of world business, politics and science. It recently insured the on-time opening of the New York World's Fair next April. In February, Canada's missilemen scrubbed a scheduled launch just before countdown until liability coverage could be placed with Lloyd's - the only in surer that would touch it. "But we exercise our ruthlessness and choose only those risks we feel are insurable," says one Lloyd's underwriter. World War II was partly insurable for Lloyd...
...defecting at the rate of one a day. At Checkpoint Charlie two guards, screened momentarily by a tourist bus crossing from the West, stepped smilingly over the white dividing line. On the River Elbe a 50-year-old boatman packed his wife and three children into a stolen motor launch, put-putted to freedom. Two men rowed a kayak across the Baltic to Denmark. The 20-year-old stepdaughter of an East German army colonel slipped through barbed wire south of the Wall, reported that East German youth is now more interested in acquiring blue jeans than party medals...
...simple way to perform such a test would be to launch two spacecraft at about the same time. One would carry the bomb; the other would be loaded with instruments and radio equipment...
Titan HI has no definite military mission. The Air Force hopes to use it to launch Dyna-Soar, its controversial steerable satellite that (it is hoped) will be able to maneuver freely in orbit and land where it will. Another Air Force hope for Titan III is MODS: an inhabitable satellite ten feet in diameter with a crew of two or three...
Syncom I, which was launched last February, went into near-perfect orbit, but its electronics system broke down, leaving it useless as a relay station. Last week's successor, Syncom II, did better. As the satellite climbed toward orbit more than two hours after launch, the Navy communications ship Kingsport, anchored at Lagos, Nigeria, called it by microwave radio. Syncom II answered smartly, proving that its electronics gear was healthy. The satellite even bounced a recording of The Star-Spangled Banner back to the Kingsport...