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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...reference "platform" that tells astronauts where they are in space, where they are headed and how fast. But how could they be sure that it would work?, the NASA brass wanted to know. "I told them I'd go along and run it myself," recalls Draper. The on-board navigation systems have proved so accurate that, if they had to, the crew of Columbia could fly to the moon and back without help from ground controllers...
...reaction was swift. Angry legislators complained about "socialistic, if not Communistic doctrines at the law school." The state board of higher education pressured Ole Miss Chancellor Porter L. Fortune, who then ordered all law teachers to choose between the school or the OEO. Last year two professors quit-and now Morse too has given in. Last week he moved to Tallahassee to become dean of Florida State University's law school. When asked about his decision to depart, Morse was brief and bitter: "I got a better offer...
...become a national symbol of campus peace-at a price. In suppressing bloody disorders, Hayakawa both entranced millions of outsiders and embittered his faculty and students. Last week the result won him a dubious prize that he actively sought. By a vote of 16 to 2, the State College Board of Trustees, headed by Governor Ronald Reagan, elected Hayakawa permanent president of S.F. State-a move that almost guarantees more strife...
What counted with the board of trustees, where the final counting is done, was the fact that Hayakawa stopped the strike. The cost included 731 arrests, 120 casualties, numerous fires and fights. Outside politics had been injected into a supposedly apolitical institution, and many students and faculty members had gone over to the opposition; but a degree of order had been restored, and the college was functioning once again. As for public opinion, as opposed to campus opinion, a recent poll showed that Hayakawa is now second only to Ronald Reagan as the most popular man in California...
...result of a $19 million loss in the year's first five months. Traders were further depressed by a cutback in capital spending at Chrysler and news that retail sales dropped in June for the second straight month. These indicators might bring some cheer to the Federal Reserve Board, which has been desperately looking for evidence that its restrictive money policy has produced some slowdown. But New York's First National City Bank warned in its latest economic letter that, "to hold fast to a restrictive policy until the signs of an economic downturn are unmistakable means that...