Word: branded
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...result, the major burden of the flight will fall on the U.S. ship. Apollo will lift off from Cape Kennedy 7½ hours after Soyuz takes off from the Soviet launch center in Kazakhstan. Once in orbit, Stafford and Copilots Deke Slayton and Vance Brand will begin a round-the-world pursuit of the Soviet ship. Eventually they will dock with it, using a U.S.-built docking system to link the ships together. After the hookup, the Apollo will have to stabilize both craft in orbit since Soyuz is not up to the task...
Among the most vexing problems is reconciling a career with the demands of motherhood. Susan Catania, 32, a Republican member of the Illinois house of representatives, takes her fifth daughter Amy to sessions of the state legislature and regularly repairs to a brand-new women's lounge to breastfeed the infant. Other women have solved family demands in somewhat less dramatic ways. Says Radcliffe's Horner...
Thomas F. Railsback, 42, served two terms in the Illinois legislature before going to Congress in 1967 with Richard Nixon's help. Since then his brand of moderate Republicanism has won such broad appeal among conservatives and union workers alike around Moline that he ran unopposed in 1972. A graduate of Grinnell College and Northwestern law, he has worked for such reforms as equal representation for men and women in state delegations to political conventions. As a House Judiciary Committee member, he urges that support be sought from the courts in obtaining evidence from the White House...
...Jazzman Herbie Hancock's Beverly Hills house, a brand-new $2,800 Arp 2600 three-oscillator synthesizer sits right next to his Butsudan altar. "There are no miracles in Buddhism, but chanting has never failed," says Herbie. "You can do it if you have a problem, or if you want something to happen or not happen. It's you you are chanting to. It's just like adding fire to yourself." Hancock began chanting two years ago. As a convert to the Buddhist sect known in the U.S. as Nichiren Shoshu of America, he would light...
...dragged off the Chief Justice, Benedicto Kiwanuka. He disappeared without a trace, as did George Kamba, a former Ambassador to West Germany who vanished from a reception that Amin was giving in his honor. Ugandans explain the missing with a wry joke that reflects Big Daddy's bizarre brand of propaganda: "They have been confused by the Zionists and imperialists and run away...