Word: launching
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...grade school French is mandatory, the Blade bought the strip after it discovered that 16,321 third-to sixth-graders were toiling at the tongue. A Toledo school official says that "most of our teachers are using the strip in one way or another." Cartoonist Kincaid now hopes to launch a strip in Spanish, based on The Barber of Seville. She draws it; a Spaniard writes it. As yet, she has not learned Spanish -but she will...
Hilton Hotels International, which already operates 13 hotels in 11 foreign countries, will open up a new 30-story, $22 million London Hilton in a fortnight. And it will launch six more hotels abroad this year-in Athens, Hong Kong, Montreal, Rome, Rotterdam, and Tokyo. Intercontinental Hotels, a subsidiary of Pan American, plans to add nine new hotels to its present 14 before year's end. They will be in Dublin, Cork, Limerick, Frankfurt, Vienna, Geneva, Singapore, Hong Kong, and at Abidjan on the Ivory Coast...
...commands. To the air force: alert the bombers and fighters in case the Syrian rebels call for help. To the navy (six destroyers and ten submarines): steam northward and await orders. To the army: prepare to move in case the Israelis might be thinking of intervention; place missiles on launch pads ready to fire...
...modern detection svstems and ground-to-air missiles are too effective to let many ordinary bombers get close to important targets, the Pentagon is hopefully looking forward to flying missile platforms. And an ideal platform would be a plane, loitering aloft, just beyond reach of enemy interceptors, ready to launch long-range air-to-ground missiles at targets deep in enemy territory. Existing bombers have small talent for loitering; the big B-52s, backbone of the Strategic Air Command, can stay in the air little more than 20 hours. Even if drastically rebuilt with LFC wings, their flight time might...
...change the temperature of the stratosphere, and the effect may reach all the way down to the ground. No one knows now what this will do-or whether it will do anything-to the actual climate of the earth's inhabited areas. To find out, the scientists will launch a stream of highflying balloons, fire volleys of rockets into the upper atmosphere. One picturesque Iksee project will loose unmanned weather balloons into the eddy of wind that circulates around the North Pole. If the balloons stay aloft for a week, they should make at least one circuit, reporting...