Word: apollo
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Social Monuments. He inspects the kennel with his new Irish setter, King Timahoe, and finds it satisfactory. He enthuses over the fact that it takes just a couple of minutes to walk to work. He uses the private movie theater to show a film on Apollo 8. The small, comfortable sitting room adjoining the Lincoln bedroom has become a nighttime hideaway and study...
...pattern of society already foreshadows this future role of Government. The U.S. now functions through a network of organizations in which Government, industry, labor and the universities are intertwined and obviously will become more so. In the Apollo program, NASA defined the mission, planned the flights and recruited astronauts; M.I.T. contributed to the design of the navigation system, North American Rockwell Corporation built the vehicle, and Pan American services the Cape Kennedy base. George Champion, chairman of the Chase Manhattan Bank, believes that if private business addressed itself to satisfying the education and housing needs of the poor it could...
...South - thus saving more money and needless misery in the North. Critics have suggested that the space program could well be cut back by at least $ 1 billion - mainly by stressing instrumented space probes rather than the spectacular manned flights with less scientific payoff. But in the afterglow of Apollo, which so lifted national spirits, such a decision might be unpopular. It also entails some risk; if the Soviet Union were to orbit a large space platform, the President would be charged with having endangered the nation's security...
Although many scientists still place the Soviets behind the U.S. in overall manned space flight, not until late next month will America attempt a crew transfer with Apollo 9. Thus there could be no doubt that last week's Russian space exploit had to be taken as a major step forward...
While man is taking new steps into the heavens, religious thinkers are pondering again some of the issues that space travel raises for faith. In churches and synagogues, the flight of Apollo 8 was a favorite topic for sermons, particularly because of the astronauts' reading the opening verses of Genesis as a Christmas Eve message to mankind.* A number of clergymen feel that growing knowledge of the immensity of the universe may prove to be a stimulus to renewed faith in God the creator. Contemplating the sight of the earth seen from thousands of miles in space, observes Episcopal...