Word: launching
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...little over two years after a small group of Republicans met secretly in a downtown Chicago motel to launch the Draft-Goldwater movement, the Republican National Committee met in Chicago to complete the final formalities of dropping Goldwater. A few die-hard right-wingers tried to delay the foreordained resignation of Goldwater's personally picked national chairman, Dean Burch, but Barry himself wanted no part of that. At the politics-encrusted Sheraton-Blackstone Hotel, Ohio's Ray Bliss was duly acclaimed as Burch's successor amidst a Greek chorus chanting party unity...
...Erhard really want to launch some kind of political organization among Europe's Six, as he had been saying for months? Fine, said De Gaulle: let the Foreign Ministers get together on it this spring, and then maybe the heads of state can have a summit about it in the fall. Did Erhard really need some new overture on German reunification for home consumption in this election year, 1965? Well, said De Gaulle, the best way is still the French way-increasing contacts with Eastern Europe. But if it's important, France understands, and by all means will...
Last week the truce game was over. Tribesmen supporting the Imam poured out of their mountain fastness to launch a successful attack on Razeh, near the Saudi Arabian border. The jubilant royalists claimed to have killed, wounded and captured more than a thousand Egyptians and republicans. At the same time, two tribes in the mountains 20 miles from San'a declared their support for the royalists and drove back an Egyptian force sent to subdue them...
...test was apparently a complete success. It proved that the new capsule can survive the critical strains of launching and reentry. The only trouble came five minutes and 15 seconds after launch, when an electrical overload opened a circuit breaker and cut off all power in the Flight Control Center for 47 seconds. This unglamorous mishap, equivalent to blowing a household fuse, stopped communication with the capsule, and might have been serious if astronauts had been aboard...
...lack for professional reading fare. More than 2,000 medical journals are available for the asking, and of these, the practicing physician gets at least 30 magazines, whether he asks for them or not. In the face of such gratuitous service, it might seem the height of foolhardiness to launch a new medical magazine. But that was precisely what Maxwell M. Geffen did four years...