Word: launched
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Tired & Unsettled. Police had closed off the streets of the tiny fortress colony, and motorcades whisked the two men unseen from the airport to the docks. There they climbed aboard an R.A.F. rescue launch and were taken to the cruiser H.M.S. Tiger, which was anchored half a mile offshore in Algeciras Bay. Dog tired, and somewhat unsettled by the heavy swells of the sea, Wilson and Smith met briefly in the wood-paneled captain's quarters of the Tiger, then went to bed. Two hours after dawn, the cruiser weighed anchor, wallowed out into the stormy straits and headed...
When it comes to foreign policy, the coalition government will almost certainly make some changes. Under Willy Brandt's influence, the government can be expected to launch new initiatives toward the East, aimed at relaxing tensions with the Soviet Union and at trying to forge new economic and cultural links with East Germany. As a concession to the influential Gaullists among the Christian Democrats, a new government will also probably attempt to repair its bridges with France, a move that would imply considerably more independence...
Even as moral condemnation of suicide is lessening, the scientific community is making greater efforts to prevent it. In Washington, the National Institute of Mental Health has just set up a national Center for the Studies of Suicide Prevention, which will launch research projects and help set up suicide-prevention staffs in hospitals and centers throughout the U.S. At present, there are nearly 60 such centers functioning or about to be established...
Comet Composition. During the shower, the Air Force will launch an Aerobee rocket equipped with a "Venus Flytrap" nose cone. While the rocket is rising to a peak altitude of 117 miles, four arms will extend out of the nose cone to catch the Leonid meteoroids, entering the earth's atmosphere at a speed of 162,000 m.p.h.; then the arms fold into the nose cone, which will fall back to earth carrying specimens that will help scientists determine the composition of the comet...
Harvard's defensive secondary was alert. Bill Cobb made a sensational diving interception of a McMahon heave late in the first quarter to launch a drive that ended 11 plays later in Jim Babcock's first field goal of the year...