Word: launching
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...most of South Viet Nam, the night still belongs to the Viet Cong. Under cover of darkness, they infiltrate men down the mountain trails from Laos and North Viet Nam, move supplies, farm their paddyfields, build their bunkers, position their troops and launch many of their attacks. During the day, they generally disappear, sleeping and hiding beneath thick jungle canopies, taking refuge in hillside caves or melting back into the "peaceful" civilian population. The U.S. has long tried to interdict the Communists' nighttime movements by regularly shelling and bombing trails and camps where their presence was suspected...
...further depressed by the FCC investigation. Last week A.T. & T. slumped to a 1967 low of $53.25. The loss in value of the stock since the 1964 high: $10.5 billion. Nor is the FCC quite finished with the subject of A.T. & T. In the fall, the commission will launch a new phase of its far-ranging investigation and review such items as teletypewriter service charges and telephone-manufacturing costs...
Mariner had company on its 216 million-mile journey. Relatively near by was Russia's Venus 4, launched only two days before the U.S. craft and also scheduled to rendezvous with Venus in mid-October. Although the two vehicles seemed to be engaged in a space race, their launch dates were determined not by competitiveness but by the fact that Venus will be only 49 million miles from earth in October-closer than at any time in the next 19 months...
...middle of Michael, Row the Boat Ashore, for example, Tom will interrupt with a snigger: "Hey, Michael, you'd better get that boat back; you'll lose your deposit." Or, eyes rolling like lopsided marbles, stuttering as though his tongue were mired in sludge, he will launch a monologue that begins anywhere and goes nowhere. When Dick glowers disapprovingly, Tom bawls like a seven-year-old: "Mom always liked you best...
...India recently bought 22 million condoms from Japan, and expects to buy another 50 million from the U.S. It is also constructing a plant in Kerala that will produce 270 million contraceptives a year by 1970. To make sure that all Indians get the message, the government will launch a nationwide "use condoms" advertising campaign. Making a pitch for the lucrative contract is another capitalistic enterprise-the U.S.'s J. Walter Thompson Co. (see U.S. BUSINESS). Explained one family-planning official: "We want the condom to be as well advertised as Coca-Cola...