Word: succeeded
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...James Madison Nabrit Jr., 64, Negro president of Washington, D.C.'s Howard University, to succeed Yost as delegate to the Security Council...
...fact that caused Moscow to talk and squawk more about Gemini 5 than any earlier U.S. space mission. Moscow's Tass at first charged that the U.S. was recklessly gambling with the lives of the spacemen on an ill-prepared mission. When it became clear that Gemini would succeed and lead the U.S. far along on its timetable for reaching the moon, the president of the Soviet Academy of Sciences, Mstislav Keldysh, tried to deflate the news by proclaiming that nobody knows enough about the terrain of the moon to land there any time in the foreseeable future. Later...
...rocket in orbit. Next year's Gemini 7 aims to go for 14 days -the maximum amount of time required for a lunar round trip and landing. The five Gemini flights after that will provide additional practice in the docking procedures so necessary if U.S. spacemen are to succeed in their bold intention to reach the moon...
...probably taken a deliberate decision to keep up an atmosphere of tension," he declared in a special broadcast to the nation. "If Pakistan has any ideas of annexing part of our territories, she should think afresh. Force will be met by force, and aggression will not be allowed to succeed...
This is the aim of the Washington mission. Will they succeed in preserving their homes? Will Aliston become too loaded a political issue to ram the project through? Observers will just have to wait and see. At least one thing is certain, however: people with a knife sharpened either for urban renewal or for Mayor Collins will be watching with great interest indeed. And there are a lot of such people around...