Word: launchings
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Samneua is doomed. If, as expected, the Communists launch a major new offensive in October's dry weather, they will probably conquer much of northern Laos...
...author gives his readers plenty of opportunity to think in cosmic terms. In Childhood's End, one of the novels, the U.S. and the Russians are racing to launch the first true spaceship. Countdowns are about to begin when dark vessels loom in the sky above. The Overlords have arrived. With firm benevolence-and without showing their physical forms-they enforce a kind of pax stellarum. When the Overlords finally reveal themselves, dark thoughts filter up in man's mind. The visitors are winged, horned, 12 ft. tall and have tails. What is their mission? Are they supreme...
Last week's failures and semifailures obscured the overall record of U.S. rocketry to date. Totting up the figures, the U.S. could feel satisfied with results-though the figures were not quite so impressive as they sounded; e.g., a launch planned only to test a rocket's first stage, and which travels only half the full distance, is scored a "success" because it accomplishes all that it was expected to. The record, including satellite launches...
...last week 70 Texas communities were ready to start Tijerina schools this fall, in a grand attack aimed at smashing the language barrier forever. Already Latin Americans are trying to launch similar schools in New York City, Buffalo, and Elizabeth, NJ. Last week Tijerina himself was hard at work stumping Texas to sell Mexican parents on the scheme, broadcasting urgent appeals in Spanish on 38 radio stations. Good Citizen Tijerina will not say how much of his own money he has spent so far: "I'm just paying a little back from what the people of the community have...
...world trade have moved the Administration to take a sterner view of foreign nations that still jealously preserve high tariffs and import quotas against dollar goods long after the need is past. At next month's annual meeting of the World Bank in Washington, the Administration will launch its strongest campaign yet to persuade other nations to ease their trade barriers against...