Word: bigs
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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This raises the question of why there is such a big fuss over the lack of televised debates. Obviously, a confrontation between personalities would be revealing and possibly decisive. But even if the candidates met headon, what would they talk about? The answer should be: plenty. At least five categories of issues cry out for deeper discussion...
...major measure of its success. Presented with little challenge from the well-functioning spacecraft, Astronauts Wally Schirra, Walter Cunningham and Donn Eisele fought off ennui as they plodded through the humdrum housekeeping and engineering duties necessary to prove their craft moonworthy. They fired and refired the ship's big rocket engine and practiced sighting stars through a sextant; they tested their computers and cooling system, and transmitted to a ground station the same sort of signals a lunar module would send while returning from the surface of the moon. For astronauts and space watchers alike, the high points...
Mournful Wails. What they offer is a big, glossy, geared-up show. Flashing, multicolored panels of lights flank a glistening fountain in the background, while two go-go girls shimmy in the foreground. The band, massed in a double row facing the audience, is a discotheque in itself. While punching out blues riffs over a pile-driving beat, the brass and saxophone players whirl their instruments around and swivel through the shing-a-ling, the funky Broadway, and other loose-jointed steps-some of their own devising. Leaders in each section use hand signals to cue the choreography...
...Developer Jenard Gross' latest 1,250-unit project will also have a shopping center, tennis courts, a gym and sauna baths, along with air-conditioned one-bedroom apartments for $150 a month. Some builders throw in a private cocktail lounge, shuffleboard courts, a putting green or even a big community center for games, hobbies and parties...
...price of victory. Since the war, the military budget has more than doubled, to $800 million - equal to 18% of the gross national product - partly because of the burden of defending conquered Arab lands. Just to administer the "new territories" costs $40 million a year. The bills are so big that Israel recently had to cut $100 million from public-works projects in order to meet the government's payrolls...