Word: airings
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...denied admission by guards who did not recognize him. "Let him in," barked an officer. "He is the President." Army Chief Alfredo Ovando, who with Barrientos had overthrown Victor Paz Estenssoro in 1964 (Barrientos won an election in 1966), was in Washington on a visit. The U.S. Air Force immediately offered him a C140 jet to fly home quickly. While Siles and Ovando and other dignitaries escorted Barrientos' body to La Paz Cathedral, Bolivians mourning the past also began to worry about the future...
...molten substances to fabricate extra-strong materials and perfectly round ball bearings. The astronauts' 10,000-cu.-ft. living space will feature a wardroom for relaxation, a microwave oven, a "sponge shower" with a vacuum cleaner to get rid of wastes, and even a forced-air toilet. Both the second and third missions will keep crews in orbit for 56 days. In the third, an orbiting observatory will be sent aloft with 13 instruments for studying the sun -particularly the solar flares that are a hazard to space flight...
...other members are NASA Administrator Thomas Paine and Air Force Secretary Robert Seamans...
...weekend of cross-country skiing. The two-day weekend also means more time for old-fashioned hobbies such as stamp collecting and chess. Televised soccer and hockey games are popular, and a few privileged children have even taken up gocart racing. Winter and summer, Muscovites splash in the open-air Moskva swimming pool built on the site of a prerevolutionary cathedral...
...antismoking commercial for every three cigarette spots. Both NBC and ABC have increased the number of antismoking commercials in prime time, while two broadcast station owners -Post-Newsweek and Group W-have dropped cigarette advertising altogether.* Dr. Frederickson, however, still considers that inadequate. Last December he went on the air himself in a series of five 30-minute programs on WOR-TV, a Manhattan independent, called How to Stop Smoking...