Word: launching
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...doubtless aware that the "Committee" has recently mailed (I suppose to all alumni) a lengthy letter with two enclosures, on this subject. It appears to be a reasonably well-organized effort to launch some sort of "alumni probe" into suspected subversive influence in the Yard...
From the start, the tone of the meeting was cordial. Macmillan was waiting at dockside with outstretched hand as the President, arriving in Hamilton harbor aboard the missile cruiser Canberra, stepped ashore from a U.S. Navy launch. "Harold, how are you?" Ike said warmly. That evening, the Big Two's big four-President, Prime Minister, Secretary of State John Foster Dulles and Foreign Secretary Selwyn Lloyd-gathered for a roast-beef dinner in the private dining room of Macmillan's suite. Despite white dinner jackets, it was a friendly and informal meeting. Before ranging off into the problems...
...Liverpool last week a venerable labor leader sentimentally told his colleagues: "After 30 years in the union it was the greatest pleasure of my life to see the Dock Road in such an idle state yesterday." At Southampton other union bosses sallied out in a motor launch to hurl the dreaded epithet "strikebreaker" at the crews of Royal Navy tugs which were towing the 81,237-ton Queen Mary out to sea. Without quite knowing how or why, Britain had drifted to the verge of a work stoppage which all the headlines said would be the biggest since the general...
...millions of Buddhists in east and north China but outranked by Tibet's Dalai and Panchen Lamas; of cancer; in Taipeh. He went to Taiwan seven years ago, served as senior adviser to Chiang Kaishek. His followers, with clues Chang wrote down just before he died, will launch an immediate search for his successor-a baby born at the exact moment of his death...
...shelves are full of drugs that have some cancer-killing properties but can be used only briefly because of their dangerous potency. Last week Philadelphia's Dr. Isidor S. Ravdin, one of the team who operated on President Eisenhower for ileitis, announced that 20 U.S. cancer surgeons will launch a two-year test: they will apply various chemicals, selected for trial by the National Cancer Institute, to the sites of cancer operations. Surgeons have long feared that when they cut around a tumor mass, they might release and spread cancerous cells; the chemicals will be studied to see whether...