Word: briefings
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...speech lasted six hours, but the lines that the party faithful had been waiting for came in a brief, embarrassed critique of a prominent party aide who, according to Ulbricht, was caught between "the general interests of society" and "illusionary, unbalanced demands...
Short Haul. Athletes suddenly airlifted from low to high altitude can perform as well as usual in brief events that require only short bursts of maximum exertion. "A trained athlete can run the 100 meters in ten seconds practically without breathing," explains Dr. Daniel F. Hanley of Bowdoin College, chief of the U.S. medical team at the Little Olympics. "You just can't build up any oxygen debt* in ten seconds. And there's no problem at 200 meters or even...
Died. William J. Allen, 76, New Jersey truck driver whose discovery in May 1932 of the decomposed body of 20-month-old Charles A. Lindbergh Jr. in a shallow grave near Hopewell, N.J., ended a 72-day search for the kidnaped child and catapulted the Negro worker into brief but unfortunate fame, landing him as a freak in a Coney Island exhibit until public pressure forced New Jersey Governor A. Harry Moore to find him state employment and give him a $5,000 reward; of heart disease; in Trenton...
...laws of orbital mechanics, though, it also reduced Gemini 6's closing speed on Gemini 7, now only 500 miles ahead. Later, he moved his flight path sideward and edged into the same orbital plane as Gemini 7 by yawing his spacecraft 90°, then firing a brief but finely timed thrust toward the south at right angles to his direction of motion...
Buried on page 15,385 of the U.S. Federal Register last week was a brief announcement in almost incomprehensible officialese. Its well-hidden message: the U.S. Government has ended its 75-day war against all imports from France containing nickel. Washington banned the imports last October (and promptly impounded more than a dozen shipments) because France's giant Le Nickel had been buying large amounts of nickel oxide from Castro's Cuba. Shipments could resume, said the U.S., if the French would guarantee that they contained no Cuban nickel...