Word: lifting
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...spewed out from the Atlas-D missile. For nearly four seconds, it seemed rooted to its pad in the space-age wasteland of Cape Canaveral, a flat, sandy scrubland dotted by palmetto trees and looming, ungainly missile gantries. Then the rocket took off, heading into the brilliant blue sky. "Lift-off," said Glenn. "The clock is operating. We're under...
...inertia facility) that simultaneously rotated him in three directions, like a carnival ride gone amok. Time and again he rode the giant centrifuge that multiplied gravitational pull to simulate the strains of take-off and landing. Despite his years, Glenn showed the least heart fluctuation of any astronaut. (At lift-off last week, Glenn's pulse rate was a relatively placid no beats per minute. Shepard's rate was 139 and Grissom's was 170 during their lift-offs. All three men normally register between 60 and 70 beats a minute.) At Glenn's suggestion, the astronauts received 5½ days...
...Association is unwilling to lift the ban until the Pennsylvanian changes executive boards; the Pennsylvanian staff repeated its refusal to do so until March 8, the normal date for the incoming board to take office...
Both Longley and David R. Goddard, provost of the University, emphasized yesterday that the administration wished to take no part in the quarrel, and hoped that the students could reach a compromise agreement by themselves. The Student Government Association has promised to lift the suspension as soon as new officers are installed on the paper. But Goldstein asserted last night that no change would be made until the traditional date, March 8. He said that staff members in both the junior and senior classes agreed on this...
...with a metal pole or any other kind." Rangy (6 ft. 1 in., 172 Ibs.) and well-knit, Uelses runs the 100-yd. dash in 9.7 sec., needs only an abbreviated, 104-ft. approach (standard: 130-140 ft.) to reach top speed. He gets so much lift that he needs only a cut-down, 14-ft. 11-in. pole to propel his body across a 16-ft.-high bar. Aloft he is unusually graceful, clearing the crossbar with his feet tucked closely together, stomach sucked in, arms flung high over his head. Uelses never rests between vaults. He paces back...