Word: launching
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Should the U.S. try to extract a political price for the wheat? In return for U.S. help in keeping Russian bellies full, perhaps Khrushchev could be talked into a promise not to launch any new cold war adventures for a while...
...Right now," Mrs. Bunting said. Radcliffe does not intend to make any complaint to Harvard and has no plans to launch a campaign for reduction of Harvard's parietal hours...
...with which they viewed all Germans. Her letter came to the attention of a lawyer named Gerd Bucerius-himself a mettlesome man, who had spent most of the war years in Nazi Germany at the unpopular task of defending Jews in court. Bucerius, who was then getting ready to launch Die Zeit, recognized a kindred spirit and hired the Grafin at once...
...addition," said McNamara, "we have duplicative facilities which will in the future include the capability of launching each individual Minuteman by a signal from airborne control posts." The mobile control posts are KC-135 jet tankers of the Strategic Air Command which have been converted into communications centers under the control of an Air Force general officer. Such an officer could, from his airborne headquarters, launch the Minuteman flights...
...test in deep space-20 million or more miles away from the earth -but such tests "would involve years of preparation, plus several months to a year of actual execution, and they could cost hundreds of millions of dollars per successful experiment." Anyway, he said, the U.S. plans to launch within two months twin satellites under the Vela-Hotel program (TiME, Aug. 9). These space-snooping detectors are designed to spot unshielded nuclear blasts 200 million miles away from the earth...