Word: balled
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...visit the U.S., now as a private citizen. Said Nixon: "I have greatly valued the frank and comprehensive exchanges of views it has been my privilege to have with you." U.S. foreign policy experts responded cautiously to De Gaulle's debacle. "We've got a whole new ball game," said one, but nobody is yet certain of the game's exact rules. One thing at least is clear: De Gaulle's resignation will not automatically produce fundamental or necessarily rapid change...
...James C. Thomson Jr., a former East Asia specialist at the State Department and White House, writes that in the internal Government debate over Viet Nam, "doubters and dissenters were effectively neutralized by a subtle dynamic: the domestication of dissenters." As soon as former Under Secretary of State George Ball began to express doubts, he was "warmly institutionalized." At each stage of the war's escalation, he was invited to express his dissent. Concludes Thomson: "Ball felt good, I assume (he had fought for righteousness); the others felt good (they had given a full hearing to the dovish opposition...
...will study the effects on himself and his companions of 28 days under zero gravity. The crew will also try to learn how vacuum and weightlessness affect certain manufacturing processes. These include electron beam welding and the use of molten substances to fabricate extra-strong materials and perfectly round ball bearings. The astronauts' 10,000-cu.-ft. living space will feature a wardroom for relaxation, a microwave oven, a "sponge shower" with a vacuum cleaner to get rid of wastes, and even a forced-air toilet. Both the second and third missions will keep crews in orbit...
TIME'S European Economic Correspondent Robert Ball reports: "Perhaps France could limp through this year without devaluation, just as the mark might squeeze through without a parity change (though this is less likely). But one is bound to ask why. A clean break fairly soon would be better for France and for the world monetary system than living with a sick franc for months...
Finance Minister Franz Josef Strauss said last week that Bonn might revalue if other strong currencies-the Swiss, Dutch, Italian and Belgian-would also rise slightly. As Strauss told TIME'S Ball: "We know perfectly well that the D-mark is undervalued against certain currencies, but this is not the case against certain others." Officials of most of the countries in question disagree...