Word: launchings
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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...Belgian government last week regretfully announced that it could not give the final results of the Congo's nationwide elections. Among the reasons: ¶In the Sankuru River, a motor launch carrying ballot boxes downstream struck a sandbar and sank. Boxes containing 10,-ooo ballots disappeared in a swirling mass of crocodiles...
...crackle of reports from a vast communications network. Mathison made a final check with radar tracking stations scattered around the earth. All were ready. From Cape Canaveral, Fla. came the word: "RF system ready." At T minus 10 seconds, "Moose" Mathison gave Canaveral the go-ahead: "Ready to launch." Canaveral's countdown neared its end: ". . . eight, seven, six, five, four, three, two, one-main stage ignited." Mathison hunched forward,. almost as though he were riding with the huge missile. Cried he: "Go, baby...
...final wild-eyed Paris press conference, Nikita took time out to launch into unsolicited discourse on his Defense Minister. Malinovsky, Khrushchev declared, was "a hero of World War I and II ... a person who has often been decorated for his outstanding services ... a true son of a socialist motherland...
...days, back in Cleveland's Modern Jazz Room, enthusiastic crowds of perhaps six couples used to gather to hear Cannonball (alto sax), and his brother Nat (cornet) launch into one of their driving versions of Cannonball's own Sermonette or I'll Never Stop Loving You. The crowd at the Workshop last week was closer to 200, and instead of sitting reflectively in their chairs, they were standing on them screaming. On the bandstand, Cannonball looked like a large, comfortable Buddha, sleepily contemplating some secret pleasure. But when he raised his hamlike right hand and with popping...
...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...