Word: put
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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David Kipps, the night dispatcher at the Hospital Ambulance. Oxygen & Equipment Co., put the telephone back on its cradle and called out to Driver Willard Baucom. "Emergency call." he said. "Go to 3307 N Street, N.W., and pick up a Mrs. Kennedy." Then the significance of his message slowly dawned on Kipps. "At first it didn't register at all." he recalled later. "When it did, I got really excited...
Thus the President's Commission on National Goals this week put a challenge to the U.S. in the bluntest terms to come out of an official document in the Eisenhower Administration. Established by President Eisenhower last February, the commission, headed by Henry M. Wriston, president-emeritus of Brown University,† had as its charter the development of a "broad outline of national objectives and programs for the next decade and longer." The Wriston Report not only fulfills that requirement but details some hard specifics and boldface imperatives. Items...
...Braun called the misfire "a little mishap" bravely predicted that the U.S. would still manage to orbit a manned capsule by the end of 1961. But Project Mercury's latest failure, third in a row, just about evaporated the last faint wisp of hope that the U.S. might put a man into space before Russia does...
...shifted: from late 1959 to mid-1960 to late 1960 to early 1961 to mid-1961 and now to late 1961. Meanwhile, by sending the dogs Belka and Strelka into orbit last August and recovering them, the Russians have shown that it should not be much more complicated to put an astronaut into space any time they are willing to risk a man instead of a couple of mutts. "I would say that you could wake up any morning and find a Russian in space," says NASA's Project Mercury Boss Robert Gilruth. "I'm frankly surprised that...
...achievements in scientific exploration of space. The Russians have rockets with far greater thrust than the U.S.'s biggest. The space capsule that carried Belka and Strelka weighed five tons. The most powerful U.S. rocket available, the Air Force's Atlas, can at best put only a one-ton payload into orbit. What has delayed Mercury more than any other factor is the slow, painstaking miniaturization involved in devising an adequate capsule weighing only one ton. Because of such complications, some knowledgeable critics believe that it is high time for NASA to review the Mercury man-in-space...