Word: launching
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Says Admiral Holloway just as flatly: "There is outside aid and there is infiltration from without here, but it would not appear to me that Nasser will mount and launch any kind of formal intervention in Lebanon. Nor do I think the Soviet Union will intervene. I think there will not be a third world war arising out of this situation...
...devices of earlier satellites. Explorer IV's extra beef-it is seven pounds heavier than Explorer III-went into instruments custom-built to examine this ionized belt, which may reach all the way to the sun and could well thwart mortal designs on outer space. Within minutes of launch, Explorer IV was wheeling with the other moons, 170 miles up at the lowest, 1,400 miles up at the highest, sending back vital intelligence on this cosmic barrier...
...Administration hopes for better things in the Senate. Republican Leaders William Fife Knowland and Styles Bridges say that they will launch a drive to restore the most serious cuts. But they cannot do it without Democratic help. Unless such help is given, the Democratic record would be built on the House shenanigans, which gave a clear, sad answer to the question propounded by Passman himself when he opened the debate...
...London party to launch a charity benefit for an actors-sponsored orphanage, Sir Laurence Olivier showed up with the ginger-tinted beard and undipped hair he let grow for his film version of Macbeth. His role: at the "Night of 100 Stars" revue July 24, Sir Laurence (in top hat, white tie and tails), with wife Vivien Leigh and Cinemactor John Mills, will trip onstage for a buck and wing...
...Decided to launch a propaganda campaign against the United Mine Workers' medical and hospitalization plans, marking the complete breakdown of efforts to reconcile A.M.A.-U.M.W. differences. Root of the trouble: A.M.A. insists that doctors must run medical-care plans and patients be free to choose their own physicians, while the U.M.W. maintains that it must have the right to pick its own medicos to treat members, for whom it shelled out $60 million last year...