Word: partnered
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...word was an unmistakable note of triumph. From 185 miles above the earth, Air Force Major Thomas Stafford reported that he and his fellow astronauts had just made the first manned rendezvous in space. Moving with exquisite precision across the night sky, the spacecraft Gemini 6 tracked down its partner, Gemini 7. As the two ships edged closer to fly in formation, then circle each other in a stately orbital ballet, Stafford and Command Pilot Wally Schirra joined Gemini 7's Lieut. Colonel Frank Borman and Commander James Lovell at the farthest reach of the fast-expanding...
...climb into the LEM and head for the moon's surface. After from four to 34 hours of exploration, they will blast off and rendezvous with the orbiting Apollo for the return trip to earth, using much the same techniques employed so successfully by Gemini 6 and its partner Gemini...
danced by. Peter waved casually. And why not? The President's partner was Duchin's wife Cheray (nee Zauderer), who is the daughter of a wealthy New York investor...
...occasional drink, says with distaste: "I want no pickled brains leading my troops." One of his generals, who got publicly involved with a subordinate's wife, was summoned to Washington and swiftly resigned. In Johnson's jealous view, "The man or wife who will cheat on his partner will cheat on me." A onetime Star Scout, he keeps the Boy Scout Handbook and the Bible in his office. Fortunately for smokers, "Father Johnson," as he is sometimes called, burns up two packs of Winstons and four cigars daily...
Then, as he and his Vietnamese partner crawled inside to get help, the truck, packed with what must have been 250 lbs. of plastique (a putty-like, easily shaped explosive), blew up. The fire ball knocked out nearly every window within a radius of 100 yds., demolished five of the buses, blew several stories of the facade off the Metropole, dug a 12-by 13-ft. crater in the pavement...