Word: launching
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...grenade at the South Vietnamese Cabinet Minister who heads the "open arms" program for defectors, but a genuine defector managed to get the grenade away from the two before it could explode. Captured enemy documents indicate that the Communists at present are in the process of preparing to launch the final phase of their war plan. That phase is not so much an "offensive"-the weakened Communist forces no longer use the word-as a series of "high points" or sporadic attacks designed to make the American people so weary of the war that they will demand an immediate pullout...
...least if water pollution is involved. Maine's tightfisted voters, for instance, approved a $50 million bond issue to build better municipal sewage-treatment plants, but turned down a $21.5 million issue to build more highways. In New Jersey, a $271 million bond issue to launch a massive clean-water program passed easily...
...newspaper office, everybody got to watch the launch on six huge American color televisions, and the spy was pretty pissed off that he had to watch it in black-and-white...
Brown disputed the outcome, complaining that the 2.2-second difference between its time and Harvard's was the result of a wake, left by a race-marshall's launch, that slowed them down. The Chairman of the Begatta Rowing Committee. Dr. Howard D. Mac??tyre, Jr., said he doubted that Brown's complaint would make a difference in the results...
EARTH SHINE by Anne Morrow Lindbergh. 73 pages. Harcourt, Brace & World. $5.75. Maundering on about the moon launch and a trip she took to Africa, the author searches for miracles-and too easily finds them. She is much given to expostulation...