Word: nearly
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...required a rocket thrust of at least 600,000 Ibs., twice the thrust of the U.S.'s most powerful rocket engine. The Soviet feat was all the more embarrassing to the U.S. because U.S. spacemen had been forced to postpone their moon shot, scheduled to soar on or near Sputnik I's second anniversary, when the Atlas-Able rocket that was supposed to do the job ignominiously blew up on its Cape Canaveral launching pad in a static test fortnight...
After Nikita Khrushchev's headline-hogging trip to the U.S., the visit last week from Italy's Prime Minister Antonio Segni was bound to be recorded on the inside pages. Indeed, Premier Segni was near to getting lost himself. Foul weather forced his Alitalia airliner into Boston, and U.S. protocol officers had to scoot up from Washington to pick him up and fly him back. When he finally got to Washington, the weather was so bad that the welcoming ceremonies-honor guard, music and all-had to be held in a hangar at the MATS terminal. Moreover...
...shabby Hotel Delta in a San Francisco slum neighborhood. While there, he received a letter that read: "Al, how about attending a reunion of our class in Washington, D.C. this fall? It would be our 30th anniversary reunion." The letter was signed "Curt" (LeMay). It was found last week near an empty wine bottle, a yellowing Army commission-and the body of Al Beatie, 56, dead of cirrhosis of the liver...
David Bachrach '59-2 of Eliot House and Brooklyn, N.Y., drowned yesterday when his wherry overturned at 5:35 p.m. in the Charles River near Stillman Infirmary...
When Harvard offered last October to divide the cost of a joint City-University parking lot near Brattle Square, the city refused the offer and it has considered no others since, City Manager John J. Curry '19 said recently...