Word: lifts
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...space agency is about to double the challenge. This Saturday morning, Astronauts Alan Bean, Owen Garriott and Jack Lousma are scheduled to lift off from Cape Kennedy atop a Saturn 1B rocket for the start of a bold new mission aboard the $293 million space station-a record-breaking flight of 59 days that will be the most rigorous test yet of man's ability to withstand the physical and psychological strains of prolonged space travel...
...launch itself will require unusual precision. If the astronauts are to rendezvous in their Apollo command ship with the 230-nautical-mile-high laboratory within the prescribed five revolutions of the earth, their lift-off cannot be delayed more than ten minutes. Otherwise, the blast-off will have to be postponed until the next day. But by then the launch "window" will, have shrunk to a mere two minutes, and it will take the astronauts two more revolutions to reach the laboratory...
Williams adopted Tommie Smith, another long-legged, long-striding master of the 100-and 200-meter events, as his idol. "He had a distinctive high knee style," Williams explains, "and I worked on developing a knee lift. If I ran to catch a bus, I ran high knee lifts. That was all Tommie Smith's influence...
...they would have been hard put to refuse an invitation to witness the launch of the second Skylab crew from Cape Kennedy, scheduled for July 28. The Russians have repeatedly shunned such invitations because protocol would have required them to invite American astronauts to one of their own lift-offs-something they have steadfastly declined...
...plight of the economy is largely attributable to the Nixon Administration's free-spending efforts to lift prosperity before the election last year, and its failure to restrain the boom that it had created. Even Shultz concedes that fiscal and monetary policy was much too expansive in the past. Some economists argue that those mistakes are now being corrected. For example, Walter Heller, chairman of the Council of Economic Advisers under Presidents Kennedy and Johnson, believes the Nixon Administration's fiscal and monetary policies are now just about right, and that the chances of real recession are less...