Word: launching
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Kissinger had been scheduled to speak himself, but was detained by the negotiations in the Middle East. Instead of delaying the speech, he had Moynihan take his place on the U.N.'s marble podium. Thus, there was no time for Third World delegates to launch the automatic barrage of anti-American complaints. With unusual attentiveness, the packed General Assembly listened to Moynihan; the silence was broken only by the rustling of paper as delegates, in unison, turned pages of copies of the text placed by the U.S. mission at every desk...
...another question. The seven state-owned dailies are believed to be losing both readers and revenues, while Jorno Novo has been gaining circulation, from an initial 40,000 last spring to some 100,000. Raul Rego, whose República was seized by its Communist printers, plans to launch a new Socialist paper next month, aptly named O Luta (The Struggle). By then, however, there may well be a new Premier, and many Portuguese journalists hope that covering the news will no longer be such a struggle...
Space shots may be old hat to launch crews at the Kennedy Space Center. But there was an unusual air of excitement as technicians made final preparations for the blast-off of the first of two Viking spacecraft bound for Mars. Each of the ships carries a lander, the first ones designed specifically to seek evidence of life beyond the earth. Viking I, scheduled to take off this week, will follow an arcing, 460-million-mile path for more than ten months before it goes into orbit around Mars in mid-June 1976.* The spacecraft will circle the Red Planet...
...didn't become a conductor in the usual way, with school orchestras and competitions. In fact he didn't begin to study music until he was 19, an age when most musicians are ready to launch their careers...
Above all, what other company can display Mikhail Baryshnikov to better advantage? This incredible performer does things in ballet that have never been done before - and does them with such transparent ease that audiences gasp in disbelief. There is obvious preparation and buildup before other dancers launch into a series of jumps or jetés; Baryshnikov will have finished a dazzling double or even triple air turn almost before viewers are ready...