Word: almost
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...garment (BIG) will open the command-module hatch, toss in three similar garments and quickly close it again. Inside the Apollo cabin, the astronauts will don and seal their BIGs before reopening the hatch and stepping into a pool of antiseptic at the bottom of an adjacent rubber raft. Almost immediately, the frogman will again close the hatch, spray antiseptic around its edges, and then give the astronauts themselves a thorough spraying...
...some improvement in U.S.-Soviet space relations. The two countries regularly exchange weather-satellite data. They have signed a treaty for the safe return of any of their spacemen who inadvertently come down within the other nation's boundaries. But the competition remains intense. Moscow continues to maintain almost complete secrecy, never announcing launch dates or mission goals in advance, releasing precious little information during or after a mission, and never allowing an American to witness a launch...
...earthly imperfections as poverty and pollution persist. Still, as Science-Fiction Writer Isaac Asimov says, "Man has always had the other side of the hill to worry about"-and he always will. This week the other side of the hill is the moon. Before this century ends, it will almost certainly be Mars -and beyond...
...strong is the sentiment for tax revision that the House would not consider the extension bill until President Nixon promised to send up a reform program later this year. Even with Nixon's pledge, the margin was an almost invisible five votes. The Democratic leadership in the Senate was less trusting. Reform, the leaders reasoned, means one thing to them, another to a President who during the campaign favored retention of the oil-depletion allowance-one of the chief targets of the reformers. Their other goals include a minimum income tax to eliminate the anomaly of some millionaires...
Questioned by TIME, some of the most distinguished law professors were almost entirely negative in their comments on the new Attorney General. "It seems," said Berkeley's Sanford Kadish, "as if the department sees the values of the Bill of Rights as no more than obstacles to be overcome. There seems to be a single-minded effort to cut the crime rate, with little sense of the constraints of the Constitution." Some of Mitchell's critics also complain that his background as a Wall Street expert on municipal bonds-about as far removed from criminal practice or civil...