Word: aids
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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SPEEDING toward their dramatic rendezvous with the moon last week, the Apollo 11 astronauts were aware that they would have company in the lunar neighborhood. With the aid of periodic news reports from Houston, they were able to keep track of the progress of Luna 15, the unmanned Soviet moon probe launched from the Baikonur cosmodrome three days before their blast-off from Cape Kennedy. The Russians cloaked Luna's mission in characteristic secrecy. Some scientists speculated that it was a "scoopy" shot designed to dig up some lunar soil and return it to earth before a manned Apollo...
...Clark Air Force Base. Marcos may tell Nixon that he, too, is under pressure to bring home his troops from Viet Nam; he may even discuss plans to withdraw at least part of the 2,000-man Philippine contingent. The Filipinos are still eager for U.S. aid and investment. But as Nixon will point out, the Philippine government is hurting its chances of attracting outside capital by continuing to tighten regulations on foreign-owned business...
...French Indo-China, which included Laos and Cambodia. Whether they will be able to go on and create a insurrection in Thailand is quite another matter. I feel that if the Thais do not let their will melt away at the thought of being on their own-with American aid in arms and resources, but not in men -then Thailand will manage to stay nonCommunist. If Thailand sticks, then Malaysia has a better chance, and so Singapore will stick...
Johannesburg bankers imply that as part of any such compromise ending to the boycott, South Africa would drop its insistence that the official $35 price be raised and the dollar thereby devalued. Any agreement would probably be denounced by political liberals in the U.S. as unconscionable aid to one of the world's most racist nations. But a deal that would dissipate doubts about the integrity of the dollar would obviously help...
However, none of these reasons explain a day in the red for July 18. They lone winners were SUN TICCO ($8.60) and WOLF WILLOW ($5.20). The night before the Scientist had enlisted the handicapping aid of a high rolling horseplay from New York, the Wellesley Kid. It was a very hot and humid night. In a fifth floor apartment two blopcks over some well-shaped young ladies fought the heat by not wearing andy clothes. The Wellesley Kid enjoyed the Cambridge view as he never had. He spent the night focusing his binoculars, occasionally puncturing the evening with such remarks...