Word: launching
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Seco-Second-stage cutoff during launch...
Correspondents have learned to be wary of the anonymous Government official anxious to launch a trial bal loon for some new policy. The reporter can never be sure when an official denial will leave him and his story out on a limb. Secretary of Defense Robert Mc-Namara, for example, recently attended a background dinner with reporters at which he remarked that nuclear weapons had not been ruled out for use in Viet Nam. Columnist Doris Fleeson, who was not at the dinner, got the details nonetheless. When she printed them, McNamara, following the established rules of the game, denied...
...event on television this week, if all goes as planned, is the Gemini-Titan 4 space shot scheduled to blast off from Cape Kennedy Thursday at 9 a.m °All three networks plan extensive coverage of the launch (which NBC will broadcast in live color), frequent reports from the space craft during the 63-orbit, four-day flight, a generous assortment of specials and summaries and even an attempt to have a pool reporter with audio gear aboard one of the recovery helicopters. Elsewhere...
...HARM'S WAY. Director Otto Preminger remembers Pearl Harbor just long enough to launch John Wayne, Patricia Neal and other heroic types into several exciting tales of World...
...ceilinged fifteenth floor, whose terrace commands an unmatched view of Cambridge and Harvard, is devoted to faculty office space and a faculty conference-room. By contrast, the windowless basement is taken up by student classrooms and a lecture-hall. This peculiar distribution of floors does not provoke us to launch a Free Speech Movement at Harvard, but it does get us thinking along the lines of some of Mario Savio's complaints about the role of students at a university. It would perhaps be going too far to suggest the deportation to the basement of Professors Erikson, Kagan, Wiley, White...