Word: launching
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Martin Kilson, there are very few Afro-Americans who can afford to hide in the soap-bubble sanctuary of Harvard tenure and launch attacks against those who are acting for change. What have you done for Afro-American students in your years here, Prof. Kilson? How are you tackling the "massive problems," except by serving as a voice of backlash and reaction attacking progressive Afro-American students...
...ships. In The True History, a tale written in the 2nd century A.D. by the satirist and onetime lawyer, Lucian of Samosata, a ship with a 50-man crew is caught in an Atlantic storm, carried aloft and sent, sail billowing, on a journey to the moon. Later storytellers launched ships with sails on even more fanciful space trips. But none of these fictional voyages was as remarkable as the mission now being planned for NASA by scientists at Pasadena's Jet Propulsion Laboratory. If all goes well, they will launch an unmanned spacecraft guided with a giant sail...
...into a package of only one cubic meter) and the framework assembled far beyond the atmosphere. Luckily, NASA is readying a suitable ferry: the space shuttle. Capable of carrying the sail and framework in its large equipment bay, the shuttle should be in regular use by the proposed launch date for the sailing ship: January...
American Duty. But the vast majority of Americans will clear up their Christmas bills with only minor difficulty and then launch on another round of credit buying-or just never stop. In the modern U.S., the Affluent Society has become the Credit Society, and an insistence on buying only what can be paid for in cash seems as outmoded as a crew cut. Those who cannot get credit are second-class citizens. Those who try to limit their borrowing are sometimes viewed as economic subversives-as TIME'S Johanna McGeary discovered when she confided to a Boston banker that...
...UNESCO is trying to raise $15 million to save the ruin (Greece has already pledged $5 million of the total). To launch the fund-raising drive, UNESCO's director-general, the Senegalese classicist and art historian Amadou-Mahtar M'Bow, climbed the Acropolis and issued a warning. "After resisting the onslaughts of weather and human assailants for 2,400 years," he cried, "this magnificent monument, on which Ictinus and Phidias left the imprint of their genius, is threatened with destruction as a result of the damage which industrial civilization has increasingly inflicted...