Word: pathe
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...millions of awed Americans followed its flight. On television sets from Canaveral to California they watched while its widening vapor trail was twisted into antic patterns by winds aloft. They listened while the calm, businesslike voice of the astronaut reported by radio as he progressed along his predetermined path. Schoolrooms knew an unaccustomed hush as students concentrated on Shepard's dangerous trip. Traffic thinned in thousands of cities as drivers pulled to the curb and tuned their radios. In Indianapolis, a judge halted courtroom proceedings so that all hands could watch a TV set that had been picked...
...capsule had curved along its course with infinite precision, its ballistic trajectory could not be compared with the far more complicated orbital flight that Russia claimed last month for its own astronaut, Yuri Gagarin (TIME cover, April 21). Still, it was a magnificent milestone on man's path into space; it was a signal achievement of U.S. science. And it brightened the cold-war world with a luster all its own. It was a gaudy American gamble, a nation going for broke in the glare of pitiless publicity...
...boosted into the air. Everything went exactly according to expectations. In the operations room at the Mercury control blockhouse, doctors crouched over telemetering equipment that recorded the astronaut's pulse, temperature, respiration. Range officers watched as moving lights on the electronic status board traced the rocket's path, predicted the capsule's point of impact. Another astronaut manned the communications console and began the running fire of reports...
...speaker's gavel, he will take over a post that by the nature of its duties stands second only to the governorship in importance. And California's Democratic Governor Edmund G. ("Pat") "Brown, a political master of the hesitation waltz, should be no particular obstacle in the path of Unruh's drive for actual party power. Already Unruh is greeted far more warmly in John Kennedy's White House than Brown...
Harvard has travelled a shabby path these last days. The original action of the administration in refusing the Student Council permission to sponsor a concert by Pete Seeger raised questions of the utmost importance. And the administration's decision yesterday to permit the concert, as long as Seeger is treated as an artist and not a political figure, makes it absolutely clear that their policy strikes at the vital heart of Harvard's commitment to free inquiry...