Word: launching
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...launch seemed so routine that only a few bird watchers turned out at the Cape Canaveral pad. And as the Thor-Delta rocket rose above the southern morning, the Bell Telephone Laboratories scientists who had built its cargo followed its course with rising confidence. Satisfied at last that their latest communication satellite, Telstar II, was in proper orbit, they put through a telephone call to their space communication station at Andover, Maine. "She's all yours. Go play with her!" It was hardly the type of space spectacular that President Kennedy warned would soon be touched off by Soviet...
...Editor Newhall can point to the rising graphs on circulation and advertising charts by way of self-justification. "We kid around a lot," says he, "and that drives a lot of intellectuals crazy. But we have to appeal to a wider group." Such as everybody who drinks coffee. To launch a recent five-part crusade aimed at coffee drinkers, the Chronicle splashed this double-decked, eight-column screamline, the kind normally reserved for declarations of war, across Page...
...then there was another part of the prospectus, in which the two young men who were daring to launch this experiment considered brash and unrealistic by most journalists and businessmen who heard about itlisted some of the things that "WE VIEW WITH ALARM." One of them: "The tendency of the Russian Soviet delegation to start rows at Genoa...
...Coach Fred Schaus, and he told his young team to chase the veteran Celtics (aver age age: 29) off the floor. But if the Celtics were aging, they were graceful about it. Bandy-legged Bob Cousy, 34, the matchless playmaker, whipped sidearm passes the length of the court to launch Boston's fast break. Towering (6 ft. 10 in.) Bill Russell, 29, swept in rebounds like an angry mother plucking her child from the arms of a too-attentive stranger. Sam Jones poured in points-29 the first night, 27 the next-as the Celtics, playing in Boston, swept...
...second revolution was launch-almost immediately upon Castro's coming to power. Draper classifies it as a member of the Communist family of revolutions, since it turned against the middle class democrats who had overthrown Batista and began to regiment the proletariat and peasantry. It proceeded so far during Castro's first year in power that the Hubert Matos affair late in 1959 signaled the "point of no return...