Word: launching
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Perched in the nose of a Delta rocket, one of the simplest satellites ever built by the U.S. roared off the launch pad at Vandenberg Air Force Base last week to begin an 8 million-year journey in space. The 2-ft. sphere, placed into a 3,600-mile-high circular orbit, contains no moving parts or electronic equipment and resembles an oversized golf ball. Yet it should provide earthbound geophysicists with a benchmark in the sky that will enable them to measure precisely the rotation rate of the earth and the wobble of its axis, continental drift...
...satellite will help observe. The uppermost of the maps shows the continents as they are thought to have existed 225 million years ago, when Africa and South America were joined. The middle map is a picture of the planet as it exists today and indicates the satellite's launch site in California. The lowest map portrays the earth as scientists assume it will look some 8 million years from now; it shows Australia welded tightly to the East Indies, and East Africa separated from the rest of the continent...
...Hanoi knew the South Vietnamese expected the first attack of the offensive to be either in Tay Ninh province, near the Cambodian border, or farther north in Pleiku. Hence the Communists' decision to launch the initial thrust against the Central Highlands city of Ban Me Thuot. That came as a complete surprise to Saigon and led President Thieu to his hasty decision to withdraw his forces from the Central Highlands. Dung calls Thieu's decision a "grave strategic mistake." Thereafter, he says, Hanoi's main problem was moving fast enough to maintain the military initiative. For example...
Once he and his new friends launch themselves on their mission proper, it turns out to be well staged and photographed, the beauty of the gliders aloft or the suspenseful silence of their descent on the wicked ones is impossible to deny. The concluding shootout, in which the police and the army bumble up just in time to help, is also nicely handled, bloodshed and death being kept to a minimum instead of being dwelt upon in the modish manner...
...episode moved many Philadelphians to launch a campaign for Rizzo's recall. Led by Lawyer Charles Bowser, who was deputy mayor in a previous administration, the recall campaign has picked up support from many liberals, blacks and others who have long disliked Rizzo because of his disdain for civil liberties and his blatant use of patronage. Ten days ago former Mayor and U.S. Senator Joseph Clark blasted Rizzo as "a rascal, a liar, a man who is ignorant, arrogant and stupid...