Word: although
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Nixon influence has not yet saturated Washington in the way that John Kennedy and Lyndon Johnson impressed their personalities on the city. But it has at least begun defining its own style. In time, it may become the Silent Majority's Camelot, although it is difficult to foresee the day when John Mitchell will be heaved into a swimming pool...
Other trophies of the Apollo 12 mission also preceded the astronauts to Houston. Some 80 Ibs. of lunar rock were delivered by midweek to eager scientists at the Lunar Receiving Laboratory (LRL). Although a thick coat of clinging dust prevented immediate detailed observation, geologists could see that several of the rocks were igneous-formed out of molten material like lava. They were also of a lighter hue than the brownish gray Apollo 11 rocks from the Sea of Tranquility-and much larger. The biggest of these "grapefruits," as Conrad had called them, weighed as much as four pounds and were...
...Although these bell-like reverberations were unlike any seismic event on earth, Columbia University Geophysicist Gary Latham offered a plausible explanation. The effect may have been caused, he said, by a layer of rubble or fractured rock sandwiched between bedrock in the floor of the Ocean of Storms and a solid cover of fine material deposits above. Lacking dampening fluids or gases, the layer of rubble may have acted as an echo chamber in which the seismic waves reverberated. If so, the next big seismic event on the moon should be a scientific spectacular; the third-stage rocket of Apollo...
Youngest Captain. Although Yankee Clipper capsized as it hit the water, the astronauts quickly righted their craft by inflating three large flotation bags attached to its tip. Lifted aboard the aircraft carrier by helicopter, the crew was hustled into the same mobile quarantine van that housed the men of Apollo 11. Soon afterward, they were cheered by a call from President Nixon, who told the three Navy commanders that he was promoting them to captain. That made the 37-year-old Al Bean the Navy's youngest to attain the rank...
...equally courteously refused, upon which the matter ended. In 1963, I was taken by night to the Lubyanka prison and ordered to write a report against an American diplomat to the effect that he had subjected me, and other Soviet citizens, to malicious ideological brainwashing. I again refused, although they then threatened me with criminal proceedings. In 1965, I refused outright to talk with them, which cost me exile in Siberia. That is why I think I have the personal right to reproach...