Word: launching
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Israel bring itself to surrender territory that could be used to launch a new war against it? Even so moderate and rational a man as Archaeologist Yigael Yadin, leader of the D.M.C. and Deputy Premier, says no. "When we come to an issue like the West Bank," he argues, "Israel's dilemma is whether to yield to U.S. pressure or jeopardize its very existence. When the country is faced with such a dilemma, Israel will not yield, come what may." Says David Glass of the National Religious Party: "You can't push Israel too hard. When we begin to feel...
...travel in the same circles, but Margaux told me to come along," said Mary Hemingway. So Ernest's widow, 69, and her stepgranddaughter the model, 23, turned up at a Valentine dance to help launch an "I Love New York" advertising campaign. "Margaux has always been a cheerful, straightforward girl, long before she got into that fashion business. Or whatever it is. I'm a quieter creature," says Miss Mary, who will start work next month on "two nearly full shopping bags" of unpublished Hemingway manuscripts. As for Margaux, she is getting ready to be a leading lady...
...Radcliffe Forum will launch a pilot "externship" program during spring break that will allow female undergraduates to explore career options while working with alumnae...
...Eastern Establishment against a rumpled, relatively obscure, former Communist. For many Americans, the contest was an elemental struggle between good and evil, between leftist New Dealers and right-wing antiCommunists. It divided the nation, set off widespread fears that the State Department was infiltrated by Soviet agents, and helped launch Joseph McCarthy on his hunt for Reds. Moreover, the case gave national prominence to a fledgling California Congressman, Richard Nixon, who used the notoriety to help win a Senate seat in 1950 and the vice presidency...
...which has been using SNAP (Systems for Nuclear Auxiliary Power) power packs since 1961, has had three accidents. A Navy navigation satellite failed to reach orbit in 1964 and disintegrated in the atmosphere over Madagascar. A meteorological satellite was aborted on launch from Vandenberg Air Force Base in 1968, and the nuclear package was recovered intact. As Apollo 13 returned from an unsuccessful moon flight in 1970, the three astronauts had to jettison their unused moon lander, and its power pack plunged into the Pacific Ocean near Australia...