Word: rocketeers
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...fact, the Salvadoran military could probably outfit two battalions with the caches captured from the guerrillas during their offensive. Most of the weapons were of Western manufacture: Belgian automatic rifles, Israeli-made Uzi submachine guns and U.S. M16s. There were also large numbers of Soviet grenades and Chinese-made rocket launchers. The weapons, bought in many places and stockpiled in Nicaragua, according to intelligence reports, had been smuggled by small plane to clandestine landing strips in remote areas of El Salvador. Nicaragua has repeatedly denied such trafficking, but the Sandinistas have proclaimed their moral support of El Salvador...
...knows a little something about scoring goals in hockey games. As a player for the Montreal Canadiens, Blake led the National Hockey League in points (goals plus assists) in 1939. In 13 seasons as the Canadiens coach, he won eight Stanley Cup titles and shepherded the careers of Maurice ("Rocket") Richard, Jean Beliveau and Bernie ("Boom-Boom") Geoffrion. From behind the bench, Blake schemed to stop such high-scoring opponents as Gordie Howe, Bobby Hull, Phil Esposito and Stan Mikita. So when it comes to evaluating hockey's newest natural wonder, the New York Islanders' Right Wing Mike...
...some little wings on that silo?" "Let's give it a try, Orville.") Actually, the space shuttle brings to mind a bloated, brick-covered DC-9, except that when "stacked" (as the space people say) on the launch pad with its enormous fuel tank and two crayon-shaped rocket boosters, it forms a surreal ensemble that could easily be passed off as the Intergalactic Hilton in a hokey sci-fi movie...
There is a small but durable group of people in Washington who remember the night of Oct. 4, 1957. The city changed-and the world too. At the Soviet embassy on 16th Street that evening, about 50 scientists from 13 nations, members of the International Geophysical Year rocket and satellite conference, were gathered at a cocktail party when the New York Times's Walter Sullivan was tugged away to the phone. He returned with a startled look on his face and whispered to Physicist Lloyd Berkner, who then rapped for silence on the hors d'oeuvre table...
...jubilant when the U.S. finally got Alan Shepard into the stratosphere and down again. Kennedy flew to Cape Canaveral, Fla., to greet John Glenn, the first American to orbit the earth. The week he was killed, J.F.K. stood beneath the first stage of the giant Saturn 1 rocket. While Wernher von Braun talked quietly into his ear of the day the monster would head toward the moon, Kennedy thrust his hands in his coat pockets, rocked back on his heels, and for a fleeting second or two in his imagination joined those voyagers far beyond earth. His eyes shone...