Word: rocketeer
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...there he also hit a couple of golf balls, and perhaps that's the way Americans who watched it will remember him. But Kluger says that Shepard was known as "the ice commander" for good reason. "He was either all business or he was this genial swashbuckling rocket jock, and he would switch back and forth without warning, according to his own internal clock." Whatever foibles this space pioneer carried inside him, they never poisoned the camaraderie among the original seven Mercury astronauts named by NASA in April 1959. Not too long ago, says Kluger, Shepard was talking to John...
...commentary on Disney's tomorrowland [SPECTATOR, May 25], Bruce Handy recalled Walt Disney's vision of a TWA rocket to the moon and said that even if TWA did fly to the moon, no one would go because the service wouldn't be very good. Handy obviously hasn't flown TWA lately. In May we won the J.D. Power & Associates award as the No. 1 domestic airline for customer satisfaction for flights over 500 miles. This isn't just an industry-insider accolade; it comes from our regular customers. We're sure that anyone who wants to take the longest...
Rowe took the job after being assured by NBC's President and CEO Bob Wright that, even though Rowe was a newcomer to the industry, "this isn't rocket science...
...have access to Chinese banking records. Even the Republican leading the new House investigation into the matter, California Congressman Christopher Cox, says he has no hope of proving that the Liu-Chung payment had anything to do with Clinton's decision to allow an American corporation to send rocket technology to China. "It's going to remain ultimately ambiguous," Cox told TIME. "We will never know...
Clinton's China policy was largely inherited from George Bush. In 1989, as part of a sanctions package meant to punish Beijing for the massacre of students in Tiananmen Square, Senator Al Gore sponsored legislation barring U.S.-made satellites from being launched on Chinese rockets--unless the President declared such a launch to be in the national interest. Under pressure from American corporations desperate to get their satellites into orbit, Bush issued nine such waivers between 1989 and 1992--and Gore denounced him as "an incurable patsy." But after Clinton was elected President, he came under the same pressure from...