Word: aims
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Nixon and his executive staff can move ahead with legislation and the new Secretary of Defense prod and cajole his generals and admirals, the new Administration will go far toward its aim. A volunteer army might help ease racial tensions, perhaps by ending the imbalance that has blacks serving in the front lines at almost three times their proportion in the population and certainly by removing the arbitrariness of the draft that puts them there. The move would also eliminate the need to force men to go to war against their consciences, and end such other distortions as paying soldiers...
...that time, Apollo was a hazy project, with some sort of circumlunar flight scheduled for some time in the unforeseeable future. In October 1960, Low made the first official proposal that Apollo's aim should be to land Americans on the moon. As NASA's Washington-based chief of manned-space-flight programming, Low wrote: "It has become increasingly apparent that a preliminary program for manned lunar landings should be formulated. This is necessary to provide a proper justification for Apollo...
Seven months later, as chairman of a committee investigating the problems of lunar landing, Low provided the facts and figures that persuaded newly elected President John F. Kennedy to declare that the nation's aim should indeed be to achieve lunar landing within...
...future; there was only rage against the present. If the rage was often justified, the results of these revolutionary attempts (sometimes mere games) were doubtful. Here and there they did shake the established powers and did produce the beginning of reforms-although reform was not their stated aim. Predictably, they also provoked resistance and reaction, only entrenching the forces under attack. As the year ended, a different sort of revolution suddenly forced itself into the world's imagination. It was represented by the flight around the moon-perhaps the only event of the year to which, in the devalued...
...captain, the 30-year-old lawyer and former Davis Cup player (1961) was determined to restore some semblance of spirit to the team, which in prior years was plagued by dissension and a marked lack of enthusiasm. Acting as a strict but understanding big brother, he succeeded in his aim by imparting, as Ashe describes it, "this special feeling. Having him as captain is like having John Kennedy for President...