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...visitor, Surveyor I. After its two-week hibernation at -250° F., the spaceship showed no sign of reviving. Its receiver, turned on ever since it landed on the moon almost four weeks before, seemed incapable of picking up radioed signals and translating them into the commands that would awaken the space traveler's other instruments. Day after day, the scientists at Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena tried to make contact; day after day, their only response was silence...
...awaken and convince both groups, the President needs more than pulpit platitudes, and the American people will certainly demand more in 1966. Meanwhile, in return for their support in the difficult days of 1965, they have a right to expect more than 126 words on Viet Nam in this year's State of the Union address...
...editorial chairman of Visión, Latin America's leading Spanish-language newsmagazine. Going back to Bogotá last August, Lleras set out to glue the front together by main force of personality and prestige. He urged all Colombians "to bind ourselves in a great movement to awaken the national conscience." In the political back rooms and in talks with the country's landowning upper class, Lleras Camargo reminded Colombians of the 200,000 killed during the years of bloody civil strife, implying that the front was the only way to avoid another massacre-or a military dictatorship...
...five-year periods. Large as it is, the foundation emphasizes, the grant will cover only about 10% of projected orchestral costs during the next decade. "We hope," said a foundation spokesman, "that the very discrepancy between the size of the grant and the enormity of the need will awaken more people to the plight of the artist in our society...
Ailey's impassioned plea is directed at his American Negro brethren. His mission is to awaken an appreciation of "the trembling beauty" of the Negro's cultural heritage-through dance, through "the exuberance of his jazz, the ecstasy of his spirituals, and the dark rapture of his blues." Trouble is, nobody is listening-in the U.S., that is. But in Europe the message is echoing loud and clear: the Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater, consisting of eleven young Negro dancers, has created perhaps the biggest sensation on the Continent since the tour of Jerome Robbins' Ballets: U.S.A...