Word: launching
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...past civil defense programs has been apathetic and skeptical, the President admitted. Yet civil defense is "insurance which we could never forgive ourselves for forgoing in the event of catastrophe." Therefore, Kennedy proposed a whopping threefold increase of appropriations (from $104 million to more than $312 million) to launch a long-range, nationwide fallout-shelter program...
...With his cousin, Colonel Robert Rutherford McCormick, then president of the Chicago Tribune. They got their starting stake through their mothers, who controlled the Tribune's treasury and peeled off enough of it to launch the Daily News...
...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 30 seconds the "umbilical cord" of tubing and cables that had been supplying electricity, communication and liquid...
Almost on the button waited the carrier Lake Champlain. Just before Shepard's launch, five Marine helicopters had buzzed from her deck to stand by for his arrival. Their crews had trained for a year for this moment; they were experts at hovering over a Mercury capsule, snagging it with a giant, steel shepherd's crook and getting its astronaut on board quickly. One of the skilled crook handlers, Lieut. George Cox, had fished the Astrochimp Ham out of the drink last...
...Opened in January, it now has 150 children aged three to twelve (many of them non-Catholic) and 13 teachers, including recruits from Montessori schools in France, England and Ireland. Whitby is headquarters of the newly formed American Montessori Association, and as such is training a dozen Americans to launch new Montessori schools across...