Word: account
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Wail of S.O.S.s." Then there is Schlesinger's account of the 1961 Bay of Pigs invasion against Cuba's Castro. The idea, Schlesinger recalls, had been inherited from the Eisenhower Administration. Schlesinger says that Kennedy found it distasteful-and so did Schlesinger. Once Schlesinger discussed with the President a White Paper on Cuba that he had been asked to draw up. "As we finished, I said, 'What do you think about this damned invasion?' He said wryly, 'I think about it as little as possible.'" But the plan was favored...
Such a maneuver is based on the solution of complex mathematical equations involving all the intricacies of space mechanics. Computers at JPL took into account Mariner's speed and trajectory, its location in relation to the point in Mars's orbit where the encounter should take place, and the influence of the sun, the Earth and Mars itself. Then they calculated the thrust needed to get the ship where it had to be at the proper time. Without correction, Mariner would have strayed 150,000 miles away from target. After the mid-course maneuver, it was aimed well...
After reading the account in the Harvard Summer News of the most recent "teach-in." I wish to commend its sponsors. Truly profound thought was required to select mediocre burlesque comic Norman Mailer as a participant. Probably no other speaker could better garbage mouth the president of the United States, and in so doing, totally demean the stature of a Harvard forum. Was Mr. Mailer's diatribe necessary to insure "full academic freedom," "scholarly inquiry," or "full discussion of the issues...
...scandal broke in mid-April, when police arrested Sadao Koyama, newly elected speaker of Tokyo's 120-man Metropolitan Assembly, on charges that he had bribed and extorted his way to the speaker's chair-and the $55,000-a-year expense account that goes with it. Before the dust cleared, 18 other assemblymen, all Liberal Democrats, had followed Koyama into jail, and a storm of public outrage forced the assembly to dissolve itself in shame. Little wonder that a nationwide public opinion poll late last month showed Sato's popularity at an alltime...
Though nothing was bought for Lament's personal account, the Securities and Exchange Commission has charged that Lamont took advantage of his insider's information (TIME, April 30). That is a damaging accusation against the son of J. P. Morgan's late partner, Thomas W. Lamont, and a prominent Wall Street personality in his own right. In addition, the SEC seeks to have Lamont "make restitution" to the shareholders from whom Morgan Guaranty bought its stock-that is, pay them what they would have earned had they held on longer. A U.S. district court would assess...