Word: commandingly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...cone-shaped ship consists of two sections or modules. In the top section, Command Pilot Grissom, Senior Pilot White and Pilot Chaffee occupied three cockpit couches looking up at the ship's maze of controls-gauges, dials, switches, lights and toggles. The service module below is essentially an engine room, housing fuel, the crew's oxygen, the basic electrical system, and a large rocket with 22,500 Ibs. of thrust to be used for space maneuverings, braking the ship into lunar orbit and supplying the propulsion necessary to send it back to earth. The whole capsule...
...their own personal quirks, and 204 had been balky from the start. As an Apollo engineer said: "The first article from the factory cannot come out without birth pains." The spacecraft gave repeated trouble. The nozzle of its big engine shattered during one test. The heat shield of the command module split wide open and the ship sank like a stone when it was dropped at high speed into a water tank. Certain kinds of fuel caused ruptures in attitude-control fuel tanks. The cooling system failed, causing a two-month delay for redesign. But all the bugs were eventually...
...resist Mao's Red Guards. Seizing weapons and ammunition from an arsenal, they warned that "anyone opposing our rebellion will be shot." In the ensuing battle, according to wall posters, hundreds were-and 100 died. The August First irregulars were supported by seven of the eight divisions commanded by the boss of Sinkiang, Lieut. General Wang En-mao, who, despite his name, is an old friend and supporter of President Liu Shao-chi, Mao's chief opponent, and holds both military command and the political commissariat over local army forces...
...sort of dejd vu copy of his father, has been commissioned a capitaine de vaisseau (the naval equivalent of full colonel). The change in grade may mean that the capitaine's handsome wife Henriette will get to the Paris Opera less often. This week he takes command of the guided-missile frigate Suffren, based in .the Mediterranean port of Toulon. In their first joint venture as producer and star, Mel Ferrer and his wife Audrey Hepburn, 37, braved the streets of Greenwich Village for a few location shots for Wait Until Dark, a melo- dramatic mystery that...
...today's fiercely competitive music market, contests have become a way of life. Virtually cut off from conductors, many of whom are too busy to wade through the welter of new works, struggling young composers have discovered that one quick way to command attention is to win a musical joust. One of the most impressive of such champions is England's Wilfred Josephs; by winning the $5,000 top prize in the first La Scala competition with his Requiem, he gained international recognition and the sweet satisfaction of having conductors court him for a change...