Word: birth
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...television, the voyage of Apollo 11 was seen and heard round the world by an audience estimated at 528 million by ABC-TV, which handled pool coverage. Many other nations sought a sense of sharing and involvement in the great adventure. Italians pointed proudly to Astronaut Collins' Roman birth. Frenchmen recalled that Jules Verne had charted the voyage more than 100 years ago. Germans noted that it was Wernher von Braun who had labored a quarter-century to perfect a rocket that could carry men to the moon. Russians were gratified that the American astronauts carried to the moon...
...David Threlfall, 26, waited in London to collect his bounty from the bookmaking firm of William Hill Ltd.; he bet $24 in 1964 that men would land on the moon by 1971, and got 1,000-to-l odds. In Beirut on the morning of launch, a woman gave birth to her eleventh child-and promptly named him Apollo Eleven Salim. The Grand Mufti of Egypt, Sheik Ahmed Hereidi; said he approved lunar exploration because "the Koran urges Moslems to look up from their earthly abode to what lies behind the moon and the stars." In Recife, Brazilians planned...
...Your story on Chavez makes a strong case for his sincerity but not for his intelligence. He opposes birth control for his people because "smaller families would diminish the numerical power of the poor." The more poor people the better...
...after centuries of wondering and theorizing, man is on the threshold of knowing. On the lunar surface, he may at last learn the secrets not only of the moon and its birth but also of the beginnings of his own planet and of the solar system itself...
Talk about identity crisis! The Socialists have suffered from one practically since birth. Their problem is how to cling to Socialist principles without either being drawn toward Communism or embracing the bourgeois Establishment. Nowhere has the conflict been more tortured than in Italy. There, Socialists are outflanked on the left by the West's strongest Communist Party, while the center is pre-empted by the dominant Christian Democrats. Ever in search of a role, often quarreling among themselves, the Socialists have contributed greatly to Italy's protean politics. They have just caused the latest Italian government crisis...