Word: launching
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...magazine. Each month there is a race between the readers and the cops. Playmen rarely lasts more than 48 hours on the newsstands; in that time, it is either sold or seized. The readers are usually quicker than the police. Signora Tattilo says that Playmen cost $640,000 to launch and estimates that it is now worth...
Even the most inventive ex-moneymen can get nowhere without capital. Gerald Benowitz left Merrill Lynch in Atlanta when volume started slipping last year. Only when he had scraped together $250,000 from 20 private investors could he and his four partners launch Creative Child Care, a night-and-day care center for affluent children. "You can call it Head Start for the Rich," remarks Benowitz. His new center will open this week in suburban Atlanta, with nurses on duty around the clock. The center is aimed at clubwomen who might want to drop off Junior a few mornings...
Intelligence reports indicate that the North Vietnamese may be in a position by the end of January to launch a new, but relatively small Tet offensive in Cambodia. The Tet lunar new year starts...
...Russians let up once Kudirka was subdued. Aboard Vigilant's launch carrying the now unconscious defector and his captors back to the Russian ship, Boatswain's Mate Richard Maresca saw Kudirka "completely tied up and being handled like nothing more than a log. One Russian sat on the defector's head and kept punching him for the entire ride. Once we arrived alongside the Russian ship, they threw the defector from aft to amidships, and threw him into a net lowered from the Russian vessel...
...Guinea) which supports the struggle in Guinea-Bissau and shares a border with Guinea-Bissau, to shake severely the free government of Guinea and undermine/destroy its position of aiding the independence movement of the PAIGC in Guinea-Bissau. Another reason for this blatant act of oppression is to launch an attack against the leaders of Pan-Africanism which Portugal recognizes as in opposition to her thieving actions in the continent of Africa. Those leaders residing in Guinea are Ahmed Sekou Toure (President of Guinea), Cabral (Secretary-General of PAIGC), Osageyfo Kwame Nkrumah, and Stokeley Carmichael...