Word: minuses
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Bright Sun, Black Sky. At T minus 3, the "cherry picker" escape crane drew slowly away from the capsule. Away snapped the umbilical cord that had supplied oxygen, power and communication. The rocket was on its own. As it waited for the starter's button, a cloud of white vapor from the liquid oxygen spread like a puddle over its pad. The crowd fell silent. Exactly at T, the rocket roared, rose off the ground and, standing on its tail of flame, climbed smoothly into...
...Plus & Minus. President Kennedy had plainly and publicly let it be known that his main aim was to size up Khrushchev, to take the Russian's personal measure as the U.S.'s mightiest cold war adversary. But the proposition carried with it the fact that Khrushchev at the same time would be taking measure of President Kennedy and, through...
Such plus and minus national imbalance could only stir U.S. uneasiness as the President headed abroad. Kennedy apparently sensed that uneasiness, and revealed his own anxiety by motoring up to Capitol Hill for an extraordinary occasion: a drastically revised version of the State of the Union message that he had delivered only four months before. Last week's speech, while coolly received by Congress, had in it the possibilities for positive national progress. Urging more monies for military programs, foreign aid and civil defense (see following story), the President was on the right track. But it seemed odd that...
...from the length of the Southeastern seaboard, and the possibility of cloud cover had to be calculated over and over. Minor mechanical troubles had to be repaired. As the countdown was held and resumed, doctors talked to Shepard and pronounced him the calmest man on the Cape. At T minus 2 minutes (2 minutes before launch), as the sun climbed the eastern sky, the "cherry picker" (a jointed crane capable of plucking the astronaut out of his capsule in case of a prelaunch disaster) backed away. At T minus 30 seconds the "umbilical cord" of tubing and cables that...
...Beach. On D-day-minus-one, a fleet of invasion ships, painted black and equipped with guns and radar in New Orleans, steamed toward Cuba. That afternoon Miró and his Revolutionary Council were driven from Manhattan to Philadelphia by the CIA and flown to a secret rendezvous in Florida, where they could be held in readiness to move into the first available chunk of "free Cuba." They were lodged in an old house near an abandoned airfield, surrounded by a swarm of agents, ordered to stay put. At one point, some of the council members announced that they were...