Word: calm
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Yale campus was calm today. A "strike rally" called for Yale'sBeinecke Plaza drew only about 200 students. Later, 150 students gathered at Beinecke to watch an ad hoc student group present Yale president Kingman Brewster Jr, with a 3000-signature petition, supporting Brewster...
...next four days, Janos focused on the ordeal of the three astronauts. Neff reported on how decisions were being reached at Mission Control, while Schefter and Anderson provided commentary on the technical problems of the rescue. Throughout, says Janos, "NASA remained calm, candid and cooperative. Busy Administrator Tom Paine found a quiet corner to talk at length with us about the problems confronting NASA after the accident. Chris Kraft gave Don and me steaming mugs of coffee during one interview, lent us a tape recorder when ours suffered battery problems...
...girl friend, Mary Grant. The match seems ideal. Haise is a devoted family man. Mary is totally immersed in astronaut life and needs little help in translating the exotic technical language her husband and his fellow space travelers speak. The Raises have three children, and Mary's icy calm throughout her ordeal was all the more remarkable for the fact that she is expecting her fourth (which the family hopes will be a girl) in June...
Finally, after an hour in the hot seat, Kranz yielded to Lunney and his "black team." Calm and unrumpled in the white vest he wears on duty, Kranz told his controllers: "Look, we've got a fresh team here. Let's get off the consoles and let them take over. They might come up with some different ideas, and we'll go back and look at the data and analyze it and see if we can find anything that might help...
Despite such flamboyant acts, Earth Day plans were largely calm and thoughtful. Technical schools set up detailed seminars in antipollution techniques. Guided "ecotours" of ravaged-and unspoiled-areas were arranged in many parts of the country. Boy and Girl Scouts were ready to quietly scour townships, picking up litter or washing public squares. In sum, the day was designed to demonstrate America's growing consciousness of ecology, hence of life itself. "It could," says Nelson, "kick off one of the toughest-and most expensive-political fights this country has ever seen...