Word: lifting
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Nixon promised during his election campaign that his Administration would step up loans and other aid for Negroes to start their own businesses. As Nixon put it, the Government should act decisively to help Negroes gain their fair "piece of the action." The rather general idea that Negroes should lift themselves up through business ownership, as many other ethnic groups had done in the U.S., inspired hope and some votes among people of all races. "To the extent that programs of 'black capitalism' are successful," said Nixon, "ghettos will gradually disappear." Today, to many aspiring entrepreneurs...
...Armstrong and Aldrin, the next nerve-racking maneuver was lift-off from the moon's surface. The squat, 172-Ib. ascent engine had been test-fired more than 3,000 times, but this was no test. Houston radioed: "You're cleared for takeoff." Replied Aldrin: "Roger, understand. We're No. 1 on the runway." Seconds later, tension dissolved; Eagle was airborne, headed into a lunar orbit. Within four hours, the module had rendezvoused and docked with Columbia on the far side of the moon. Then Armstrong and Aldrin left the LM so quickly that ground controllers, caught...
...moon remains a continuing challenge. Only hours after Columbia and her crewmen were plucked of the Pacific, U.S. space officials an that Apollo 12 will lift off Cape Kennedy on November 14. Its target: the Ocean of Storms, several miles northeast of Apollo 11 's Tranquillity Base...
...mission's activities, "because there just wasn't much I could do." Other flight directors for Apollo 11 were Gene Kranz, 35, who wears a white vest to match his team's color; Milt Windier, 37 (maroon), and Glynn Lunney, 32, whose black team handled the lift-off from the moon and Eagle's rendezvous with Columbia...
...style derives from both decorative Oriental and primitive art and illusionist painting. He may lift details from lace sleeves he has seen in a Flemish masterwork at the Metropolitan Museum and expand them into blown-up patterns, offset these with gingham checks from his wife's summer dress, and counterpoint both with huge pointillist dots. The results look like an explosion in a fabrics factory or a rabbit-hole view of a Wonderland garden...