Word: launching
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Juan Carlos assumed all of Franco's powers, except the positions of head of the Movimiento National and of generalissimo of "the Three Armies"-posts el Caudillo retains for life. The Prince, however, already wields sufficient authority to launch Spain's post-Franco epoch. His first official function, in fact, clearly symbolized that power had been transferred to him; he presided over Friday's Cabinet meeting, which was held around the dining-room table of his Zarzuela Palace rather than in the dining room of Franco's El Pardo...
...last U.S. craft to venture near Venus was Mariner 10; it took the first closeup pictures of the Venusian clouds in February 1974 en route to the sun's innermost planet, Mercury. In 1978 NASA hopes to launch an equally ambitious probe. A Pioneer spacecraft will drop five separate exploratory packages into Venus' atmosphere-provided, of course, that budget cutters do not kill the mission before it gets off the ground...
...nation's biggest supermarket group, could not share a director because Macy's sold gourmet foods. If the Government can establish a precedent that ties between banks and nonbank companies are subject to the law, and that banks and insurance companies compete, it can be expected to launch more suits. It might contend that the same person cannot serve as a director of a bank and oil company because both issue credit cards...
...always been surrounded on three sides by water and on the fourth side by Republicans"). Pike harbors a secret yen to be a "charter captain half the time and a political writer the other half," but he settles for cruises off Long Island in the 30-year-old Navy launch he bought for $8,250. Pike and his wife Doris still live in the two-story Victorian frame house where he was born; in Washington, he occupies a modest three-room apartment above a delicatessen near the Capitol...
...University will soon officially launch a $15-million fund-raising drive for the establishment of a Center for Jewish Studies...