Word: launch
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Soviet promptly approved) swarthy, bushy-browed, dynamic Leonid Brezhnev, 53. Like Kozlov and Kosygin, Brezhnev belongs to the new generation of Soviet men, reared among machines rather than revolution, trained in industry, agriculture and politics. He got his start working under Khrushchev in the Ukraine, moved to Kazakhstan to launch Khrushchev's pet "virgin lands" scheme, and only this year made his first trip beyond the Iron Curtain to speak at a Finnish Communist Party Congress. Since he still is a top Party Secretary, Brezhnev may fill the hitherto largely ceremonial office of President with greater power and authority...
...final analysis," said Mahon, "to effectively deter a would-be aggressor, we should maintain our armed forces in such a way and with such an understanding that, should it ever become obvious that an attack upon us or our allies is imminent, we can launch an attack before the aggressor has hit either us or our allies. This is an element of deterrence which the U.S. should not deny itself. No other form of deterrence can be fully relied upon...
...left the Anatolia Club that afternoon to walk 400 yards to Ankara's Ish Bank, a crowd of 5.000 formed quickly around him. They shouted "Hurriyet [Freedom]" and began singing the famed marching song that Turks sang at Samsun in 1919 when the late great Ataturk landed to launch the fight for an independent Turkish republic. But not for long. Truckloads of police rolled up and arrested 22 of the demonstrators...
...Navy officially talks of the water-launch system, which it calls Project Hydra, as being used for very large, space-voyaging rockets. But military uses may be more important. Solid-fuel missiles, built so that they will float nose-up, might be anchored under the surface in protected places such as the lagoons of Pacific atolls. They would be easily moved, hard for an enemy to find, and almost impossible to damage except by the near-pinpoint hit of a nuclear weapon. Their guidance systems would know exactly where they were, so they could be programed to strike...
...nation's fifth biggest and least profitable airline moved another step closer to the time when it will either have to solve its financial woes or turn in its wings for good. To Capital Airlines last week went formal notice that the Civil Aeronautics Board will launch a full-scale investigation into the line's affairs, its unpaid $33.8 million mortgage debt to Britain's Vickers Ltd. for 60 Viscounts, and its mounting losses, which total $5,400,000 for 1960's first quarter, v. $936,878 in 1959. The study will consider whether to merge...