Word: lifting
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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When a recovery helicopter descended to lower the cagelike sling used to lift the astronauts aboard, the draft from its rotor whipped the ocean swells and pushed the floating spacecraft and attached rafts away. Again and again, as NASA the helicopter made passes, frogmen reached for and missed the dangling cage...
...CENTRAL figure in the story, Emiliano Zapata, became a mythical being in his own lifetime. To the Lift in Mexico and around the world, Zapata is the purity of the Revolution, and the intransigent spirit of the People. His best-known statement of policy, "It is better to die on your feet than to live on your knees," was one of the slogans in the Mexico City student revolt only last summer. (Womack is not sure Zapata ever said it, and the students attributed the remark to Father Hidalgo, the fervent but inept tocsin-sounder of the Revolution...
...promising future. The reason: equatorial Guiana is strategically located for the space age. At its latitude of 5° north, the surface velocity of the rotating earth is much swifter than at Cape Kennedy, which is at latitude 28° north. Thus, a rocket fired in Guiana can lift about 24% more payload with the same thrust than one fired at Cape Kennedy. Moreover, Guiana has a 120° stretch of open water north and east of it that is ideal for polar-orbit launchings. As a result, France, forced out of its former space station in the Algerian desert...
...million more for initial production. On the Concorde rides much of the future of the aeronautical industries of both France and Britain, as well as the possibility of further industrial partnerships between the two countries. Sales of the plane could bring in significant amounts of foreign exchange to lift already shaky currencies...
...hysterical Ronald Reagan, or a sexually incompetent David Eisenhower, Mr. Nye always disposes of his chores with a wild sense of reality--a comic precision that tells us he has seen where we are heading and has puked his guts out at the spectacle. He never fails to lift any segment he appears in; writer Eskow has got to raise the whole entertainment up to the standard this comedian sets...