Word: ascent
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Taking into account the quirks of Harvard admissions and given any sort of cooperation from Fred Jewett, Don Gambril's meteoric ascent to the top of the swimming world (a place he has been before) should continue, for at least another couple of seasons. After this winter's performance, the only place for Harvard swimming...
...class received college acceptances not long after the inauguration of a President who would take dead aim at student activism, and not miss. We have witnessed the ascent of Nixonian Washington; we have watched its maestro change the face of America over the past four years, employing outright assaults on civil liberties, a determination to squelch or circumvent political opposition, and a jumbled conception of domestic and international priorities. Now that he has turned four years of criminal warfare into a so-called "honorable peace," we find ourselves in an odd position. We are the future of America at peace...
Philosopher William Irwin Thompson, who perceives a growing sense of myth and mysticism in today's technological society (TIME, Aug. 21), mused over the astronauts' "conversions" as he watched the ascent of Apollo 17. In space, Thompson says, the astronauts felt "their consciousness being transformed to behold God making all things new. Perhaps this transformation of consciousness is the strongest argument in favor of manned space flight. Had we merely sent out efficient instruments of measurement...the machines would literally encircle man. Now that we have sent out man, we have affirmed that technology is still only part...
...Gentle. Little more than seven minutes after its spectacular ascent from the lunar surface, Challenger was in lunar orbit, ready for its rendezvous with America. "God, you look pretty," Cernan radioed as Challenger approached the mother ship. Evans maneuvered America so gingerly in the final phases that the first docking contact was too gentle; the latches of the docking mechanism failed to catch. The two ships came together harder on the second try and were firmly joined. Taking their rocks, films and other paraphernalia with them, Cernan and Schmitt climbed through the connecting tunnel and rejoined Evans; the moonwalkers...
...McGovern, it was the end of a 22 month campaign in which he drove uphill to win the nomination but could not continue the ascent to the White House...