Word: launching
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...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 was ready...
Died. Thomas Henry Connolly, 90 the man behind the plate when Chicago beat Cleveland, 8-2, to launch the American League in 1901, an even-tempered, English-born umpire who once went ten years without thumbing a player from a game was named to Baseball's Hall of Fame in 1954, the year he quit the game; of a heart attack; in Natick, Mass...
...Graduate School of Design will launch a major fund raising campaign next fall, Jose Luis Sert, Dean of the Faculty of Design, revenled yesterday...
These were among the first widespread showings of a new industrial training system that animates still pictures by a new use of polarized light. Industry and government are already using the system for everything from showing how the new Bulova electronic watch operates to training workers to launch a Titan missile from an underground base. F. P. Copper, of General Electric's light military electronics division, says of the animating process: "It's terrific...
...house (Portugal) as the General Assembly by a vote of 95 to 1 censured the apartheid racial policies of Prime Minister Verwoerd's government and requested member countries to take "such action as is open" to them against South Africa. It was nearly worse. A proposal to launch a worldwide economic and diplomatic boycott against Verwoerd's government was voted by a majority of the Assembly's Special Political Committee, but failed to muster the necessary two-thirds vote in the Assembly itself...