Word: across
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...PLAYHOUSE (NET, 8-9:30 p.m.).* David Hemmings stars in Auto-Stop as a young man who goes on a hitchhiking trip across Europe to impress an older woman. Repeat...
...water in his lungs and a slight concussion. Do you call a doctor? Don't be ridiculous. The proper thing is to take your friend to the nearest ferry and, when the ferry is shut down for the night, just calmly stand there and watch him swim across the channel, preferably fully clothed. Now he'll be able to recuperate all by himself in a nice comfortable motel room...
...prompted his hosts to think seriously about standing more independently in the future. He took care to limit the ceremonial aspects of the trip, but his very presence was highly symbolic. In office less than seven months, he had already toured Europe and Asia. The U.S. still looks out across both the Atlantic and Pacific oceans, he was saying, and a new President was clearly marking out his own way of dealing with friends and adversaries on both the troubled overseas continents crucial to U.S. interests...
...voluntarily undergoing harrowing experiments in order to determine the limits of her consciousness. As the novel closes, she is stranded off the Scottish coast, England having been decimated by poison gas and radioactivity. She has also become a member of a telepathic community whose members speak to each other across great distance through the power of their own shared thoughts. In doing so, Martha attains a perspective that permits her to see, in the midst of the chaos, a terrible beauty being born. Around the world, mutant infants begin to appear. To their earthbound parents, these children that...
...here with Nixon, a day there covering Romney (remember Romney?), with Rockefeller, with Robert Kennedy, even Johnson-the events that ultimately shaped the election were taking place elsewhere. In Viet Nam, the Tet offensive was finally shattering hopes for a clear-cut American military victory. On campuses across the country, a young political amateur named Allard Lowenstein was meticulously organizing a network of students to a force that would decisively help unseat the President and carve a niche in history for Eugene McCarthy. In cities a continent apart, two maimed minds were moving nearer their appointments with infamy...