Word: lifting
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Last month Topping got city approval to expand U.S.C.'s tight campus to a roomier 138 acres. This week he will dedicate two new medical buildings, costing $3,000,000. But more impressive than buildings is the lift in faculty morale. "Topping has infused the whole outfit with new vigor and direction." glows veteran English Professor Frank Baxter. "Now other schools are raiding our staff. That didn't happen before...
Fully fueled with hypergolic liquids,* the Navy rocket weighs only 700 lbs.; the 1,300-lb. thrust of its engine can easily lift it off the ground. Setting the rocket down gently and upright is a much tougher task. To postpone some of the problems, the Navy flies the rocket up and down a set of vertical cables. This takes care of wobbling and allows the rocket's operators to concentrate on controlling its vertical motion...
...choppers buzzed to meet it. They were hovering close when it hit the water with a small splash, three miles away. Shepard had already asked by radio to be taken aboard; so Crook Wielder Cox got a line around the capsule, steadied it and lowered a horsecollar sling to lift Shepard to the chopper.* Safe in the cabin, the first U.S. astronaut exulted: "It's a beautiful day. Boy, what a ride...
...humming hive of activity. Six helicopters were tuning up, ready to carry skilled technicians, doctors and frogmen to rescue the astronaut if the capsule splashed near by. If the Freedom 7 should start to sink, frogmen would be ready to slip beneath it and inflate a raft to lift it to the surface. Army amphibious craft were ready to retrieve the capsule if it fell in the surf. Waiting out at sea were 65-ft. Navy speedboats; other special craft were on the alert should the capsule head in the wrong direction and land in the Banana River, the shallow...
...enthusiasts. U.S. spacemen, and the businessmen, engineers, Congressmen and assorted civilians who support them, are once again dreaming brave dreams. Daring and hopeful projects are making the rounds: there is confident talk of nuclear rockets that will penetrate far into space, giant, solid-propellant boosters to lift great weights off the earth and permit manned flights far beyond the known world...