Word: pad
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Though barely two months have elapsed since the successful flight of Apollo 9, the U.S. is poised for yet another space epic. At Cape Kennedy last week, a giant Saturn 5 stood on Pad 39B, and an astronaut crew and NASA technicians methodically ran through a mock countdown in preparation for the launch of Apollo...
...settle down-up to a point. He started seven years ago as a $275-a-month stockbroker's clerk, progressed to a partnership that is now worth $80,000 a year. Girls, lithe and long-legged, are still wild about him, frequently decorating his three bedroom bachelor pad in Burbank. "I work hard and I play hard," Barry Jr. says. He pilots his own single-engined Bonanza, has sailed a yacht to Hawaii and Tahiti and keeps a brace of motorcycles for Mojave Desert hill climbing...
...weather is dry and sunny nearly year-round, offering a respite from muggy Key Biscayne summers. There is privacy; the house sits on 20 sequestered acres on a bluff between the ocean and the coastal highway. There is even the convenience of nearby Camp Pendleton, with a handy helicopter pad for presidential commuting...
...personnel bureau of American society." Indeed, once the university is postulated as the linchpin in a hopelessly corrupt system, it becomes a key target in the radical politics of confrontation. Again and again, radical voices call for the transformation of the university into "a bastion or launching pad for total revolution...
...line of type. After shedding his first wife of ten years, Barnes married Patricia Winckley, a lithe balletomane who looked like a swan on leave from St. James's Park. In New York, the Barneses and their two children, Christopher, 7, and Maya, 5, settled into a sprawling pad on Riverside Drive. The overachiever brushed up his diction, stiffened his self-assurance and pressed...