Word: bigs
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...days 4 hr. and 36 min. after its lightning-marred launch from Cape Kennedy. The landing was only 13 seconds off schedule and only 2.6 miles from its target near the bow of the Hornet. Even so, there was a moment of tension. Drifting down under its three big orange-and-white chutes in full view of a worldwide TV audience, Yankee Clipper suddenly seemed to be billowing smoke-a sight that was ominously reminiscent of the fatal Apollo fire in 1967. In this case, however, Skipper Conrad was simply venting surplus fuel, an operation usually performed at a higher...
...execution, but it was reported in Nairobi that Njoroge had died at 3 a.m. on Nov. 8. According to these reports, he went to his death without explaining what he had meant when he asked police after his arrest: "Why don't you go after the big...
Politesse and Patience. An old Indo-China hand who once served in Vientiane and Hanoi during the French days, Rives concedes that "we're moving very slowly here." With good reason. Prince Sihanouk broke relations with Washington in 1965, partly because he considered the U.S. presence too big for comfort. It had grown to more than 200 people and an aid budget of $30 million a year. Nowadays, Sihanouk's chief fear is that a Communist victory in Viet Nam might encourage the 40,000 uninvited North Vietnamese and Viet Cong troops who now use Cambodia...
...battlefield: New York City. "It is a laboratory," Baron explains. "Every noise source in the U.S. can be found here in larger amounts." His success: meager. "The big problem is communication," he says. "When air pollution was shown actually to kill people, there was action. Fortunately or unfortunately, we cannot show a direct cause-and-effect relationship between excessive noise and death...
Moving right along now into its third big season is NBC's Rowan and Martin's Laugh-In. Simultaneously, the show is coming apart. Although its ratings are still tops in television, its very success is beginning to exert pressure that will change the show markedly by the second half of the 1969-70 season, and radically by 1970-71. The fact is, some of the most familiar Laugh-In regulars are dropping...