Word: phoning
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Hannifin headed for the phone to alert TIME's editors to the worst space disaster in U.S. history, the subject of this week's cover stories. Boston Bureau Chief Robert Ajemian promptly left for Concord, N.H., the home of Teacher Christa McAuliffe. Houston Bureau Chief David Jackson monitored developments at the Johnson Space Center. Washington Correspondent Jay Branegan pored over the tragedy with NASA experts in the nation's capital. In New York City, Senior Writer Ed Magnuson, who wrote the main story, and a 31- member editorial team awaited their telexed reports...
...Concord, had flown to the cape to watch the lift-off. Christa's son Scott, 9, was in the class. Her daughter Caroline, 6, was also there but had never quite understood what her mother was doing. While McAuliffe had been in training, Caroline had asked several times by phone, "Mom, are you in space...
...gathered in planning sessions for the International Geophysical Year. They were certain they would dominate the global experiments. Along with experts from a dozen other nations, the Americans assembled at the Soviet embassy on 16th Street, sipping vodka. Walter Sullivan of the New York Times was called to the phone, and the news he heard changed the world. Sullivan hurried back to the party and whispered in the ear of Physicist Lloyd Berkner, who rapped on the table for quiet. "I am informed that a satellite is in orbit at an elevation of 900 kilometers. I wish to congratulate...
Richard Nixon claimed his part just as soon as he became President. He eagerly plugged into the moon landing, talking by phone to Neil Armstrong and Edwin ("Buzz") Aldrin on the lunar surface. "This certainly has to be the most historic phone call ever made." It was even more, and Nixon knew it. He launched a global diplomatic odyssey timed to take advantage of the Apollo 11 success. His itinerary placed him on the aircraft carrier Hornet just as the moon crew was fished out of the ocean and lifted onto the TV screens of people all over the globe...
...ordinary. Nobody aboard Challenger was ordinary. But the other six crew members were our representatives too. Like the teacher, their new colleague, they were citizens pursuing careers. Their jobs involved bigger risks and greater sacrifices than many others. But when they went home they found spouses and children, friends, phone calls to return, the ups and downs of daily living. When they wanted to relax, they played the saxophone or the piano, they painted oil pictures or jogged...