Word: weatherly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Redstone Ready. The lonely wait ahead of him was as familiar as the suiting-up process. Just three days before, Shepard had struggled into his pressure suit and suffered its discomfort for nearly four hours before the shot was canceled because of weather. Now the whole tedious preflight procedure had been repeated. Step by step the Redstone had been readied for launch. The capsule's innards had been checked and rechecked (Fellow Astronaut John Glenn had spent the previous two hours in a minute inspection) before a warning horn sent mournful blasts across the palmetto flats. The Redstone...
Still there were more delays. Weather reports were coming in from the length of the Southeastern seaboard, and the possibility of cloud cover had to be calculated over and over. Minor mechanical troubles had to be repaired. As the countdown was held and resumed, doctors talked to Shepard and pronounced him the calmest man on the Cape. At T minus 2 minutes (2 minutes before launch), as the sun climbed the eastern sky, the "cherry picker" (a jointed crane capable of plucking the astronaut out of his capsule in case of a prelaunch disaster) backed away. At T minus...
WHEN venerable Thomas J. Lipton Inc. of tea fame bought the Good Humor Corp. (for $8,200,000), it acquired two typically American products : ice cream on a stick and Good Humor President David J. Mahoney, 37. Lipton plans to expand Good Humor into more hot-weather cities, may add cookies and other child-appealing products to its line. An Army captain at 22 and the $25,000-a-year vice president of an ad firm at 26, Mahoney took over Good Humor in 1956, is one of the nation's most aggressive marketing...
...starter against Brandeis will probably be Dick Garibaldi, a sophomore right hander who opened the season as the team's top pitcher. Garibaldi has not been able to find the plate too consistently, but Shepard is hoping the warm weather will help his control...
...fact that the author now buys his shoes for pounds sterling in London does not prevent him from typing "ain'ts" into his copy. "Know" is translated "reckon," "a lot" becomes "a power," g's are dropped conscientiously, and "God," sorrily enough, becomes "the boss weather-maker...