Word: calme
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Twas coffee then, a date at ten; his hour exam slipped by. As finals came, to study he sought Lamont's quiet calm, Another girl; his finals flunked; he's now in Vietnam...
Winners: the Extremists. In Santo Domingo, rumors flew that the entire rebel leadership had been ambushed and massacred. Pro-rebel mobs took to the streets, slinging rocks, throwing up street barricades, and setting cars and trucks ablaze. On his return to the capital, Caamaño called for calm "so that no one may justify acts of aggression." Sporadic violence continued throughout the week...
Harold Wilson arrived at U.N. headquarters in New York last week to appeal for reason. "I beseech this assembly," said he, "to give us time to deal with this situation. Calm, cool counsels are more likely to settle this issue. If passions take control, this mad action could be the beginning of a new and more dangerous conflict, unlike any in world history." Before he began to speak, 25 African delegates (including eight Commonwealth representatives) had walked out on him. Snapped Tanzania's Ambassador John Malecela: "Africa feels the United Kingdom is stalling...
...voice was almost unbelievably calm. But behind every word was an unmistakable note of triumph. From 185 miles above the earth, Air Force Major Thomas Stafford reported that he and his fellow astronauts had just made the first manned rendezvous in space. Moving with exquisite precision across the night sky, the spacecraft Gemini 6 tracked down its partner, Gemini 7. As the two ships edged closer to fly in formation, then circle each other in a stately orbital ballet, Stafford and Command Pilot Wally Schirra joined Gemini 7's Lieut. Colonel Frank Borman and Commander James Lovell...
...Calm & Effective. Perhaps. But there was little doubt last week that much of the credit for the successful rendezvous belonged to casual Wally Schirra, who, at 42, is the oldest astronaut flying. It was his cool and seasoned performance during the abortive Sunday launch of Gemini 6 that made the midweek triumph possible. Had he panicked and pulled the Dring ("chicken switch") that would have ejected him and Copilot Stafford from the Gemini capsule, the mission could probably not have been sent aloft on time. His superb piloting of the capsule, perfected in long hours of practice in the Houston...