Word: launching
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...millionaires. Now the fund was out to protect Leonardo's exquisite drawing of the Virgin and child with St. Anne and St. John the Baptist, which its owner, the Royal Academy, intended to sell at auction to get itself out of the red. The fund had decided to launch a public appeal "to secure this incomparable treasure for the nation," would start things off by donating ?50,000 from its own coffers. Everyone agreed that the noble lord had nobly performed, but last week some Britons had their doubts about their countrymen's sudden artistic passion...
...intuition telling her that the Russians would have a woman in space by the fall, Jane Briggs Hart, 40, aviatrix wife of Michigan's Democratic Senator Philip Hart, hoped to beat them to the launch. After getting nowhere with NASA brass, the zingy mother of eight (who has logged some 2,000 flying hours and last summer passed the astronauts' screening physical) decided to go to what she thought was the top. To no avail. "He was very interested," sighed Janie Hart after 30 minutes with National Aeronautics and Space Council Chairman Lyndon B. Johnson, "but he said...
HEARTY AND HELLISH! (the Clancy Brothers and Tommy Makem; Columbia). The Irish revolutionaries who now campaign on the nightclub circuit launch with characteristic gusto into the folk favorites of the pubs. In the quartet's repertory are love songs, drinking songs (Whiskey, You're the Devil) and a few broad digs at Mother England...
...James Couzens Elementary School, got the idea for the nursery in 1959. when the Ford Foundation picked his school as part of the Great Cities School Improvement Program to cut down school dropouts. Pryor milked $2,500 from Ford and the Detroit board of education, got permission to launch the nursery at Couzens on his own time after school. Circulating leaflets in the housing project, he sold the parents of 20 three-year-olds with his message: "Now is the time to help your child be a good student...
Last week hardly seemed the time to launch a new stock exchange-at a moment when the whole U.S. securities market was undergoing the most searching Government investigation since the 1930s...