Word: bitted
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Good to hear your voice," said Astronaut Lovell, breaking the long silence after Apollo had emerged from behind the moon. Wild cheering filled the control room. Says Flight Director Glynn Lunney: "It certainly wasn't a faint reaction. There was quite a bit of racket. I'm sure it can be described as one of the happiest Christmas Eves just about anyone there had seen...
...legally or ethically improper about them. And although some Nixon aides may feel that there is an organized effort to make Nixon a prisoner of established policies, there is no evidence of a grand plot to this end. Some Johnson men, in fact, want to give their successors a bit of elbow room. The Budget Bureau, for example, has advised operating departments to leave to the new Administration any "moves, purchases and other actions that can be delayed...
...Rozelle seemed a bit testy, it was un derstandable. All season long, coaches have been berating the officials in boldly public ways. Occasionally they have a point. Recently, when one team of officials inadvertently deprived the Los Angeles Rams of a down in the closing seconds of a close game, Rozelle suspended them for the remainder of the season. In an earlier game, the same officials, who keep count of the plays by looping a rubber band around their first, second, third or fourth finger, lost track and had to call the press box to find out what down...
Cosmetic Results. Stanton was a bit stunned. After the assassination of Robert Kennedy, the three networks themselves announced a voluntary exorcism of "excessive" violence. But it was too late to change the mood of the TV season without enormous financial sacrifice. The schedule of programs had been sold to advertisers, and in some series as many as ten weeks' episodes were already completed. Although drastic revisions were promised, the results were mainly cosmetic...
...running a singles-only computer dating cruise from New York City to the Bahamas . . . When you buy your ticket your name will be fed into a computer and when you board the Olympia you will be introduced to five or six match mates. Take it from there." The bit of text, from a new, youth-oriented magazine called 25, sounded intriguing; the accompanying photographs of frolicking girls in bikinis were positively tantalizing. TIME Reporter Carey Winfrey, 27 and single, took it from there and set sail on the Olympia. His report...