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...President and Mrs. Nixon seem more interested in posing for pictures than in actually walking on the wall. The President finally calls a halt before another ascent. "We will not climb to the top today," he tells his host. "We are already meeting at the summit in Peking." Then he delivers a final homily. "As we look at this wall, we do not want walls of any kind between people...
...finished the poem, his right hand arched upwards into the smoky spotlight air in a mighty gesture of evangelism. Yet the cosmopoet was always stagebound, always in his political poems, judging the audience's response. A nervous sense of commercialism shackled his ascent. The sublime, that mostly mystical state of imaginative transport, eluded him and certainly his audience. And certainly one can not expect to find his highest excellence of art in the nuts and bolts of topical evanescence in the bump and bulk of rush-hour urgency...
...dynamic career has taken Pete McCloskey from Stanford Law School, through the Korean War, where he distinguished himself as a first-rate soldier, to a congressional victory over Shirley Temple Black, in 1967, and finally it has started him on the treacherous ascent to the presidency of the United States. Pete McCloskey has a lot of guts. Even he admits it may have cost him a political future...
...British expatriate was a most prolific writer. As H.F. Heard, he turned out first-rate detective stories (A Taste for Honey) and Orwellian chillers (The Great Fog). As Gerald Heard, he wrote such scholarly works on philosophy and religion as A Dialogue in the Desert and The Ascent of Humanity...
...into Endeavour and closing the hatch, Scott said wistfully: "The Falcon is back on its roost and going to sleep." In fact, it came to a thunderous end. After a brief flurry of concern because of a possible hatch leak, the astronauts cut loose the lunar module's ascent stage and sent it crashing back to the moon's surface 59 miles west of Hadley Base. Its impact jiggled all three of the nuclear-powered seismometers on the moon, including the new Apollo 15 instrument. Geophysicist Gary Latham of Columbia University was delighted...