Word: calme
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Flotsam. Fifteen ships plowed through calm, moonlit seas near the crash scene, and soon eleven helicopters skimmed low over the surface. They dropped flares, illuminated the area with floodlights, held rescue divers at the ready to plunge into the icy water should there be any sign of survivors. There was none...
...Cast. The cast of characters is different too. Gone from the space program is Colonel Shorty Powers, the public affairs officer whose calm voice reported the Mercury events to millions of TV watchers and radio listeners; he has been replaced by a civilian, ex-Newspaperman (Washington Evening Star) Paul Haney. Mercury Director Walter Williams has resigned to become vice president of an aerospace consultant firm; his job has yet to be filled...
Conceivably, the Conservatives could muster enough strength to bring down Pearson's minority government and force an election. But while Pearson has lost support, he has not lost so much among Canada's calm, affluent citizens that they are ready to hurry out and vote for Diefenbaker. Many Conservatives think they would lose an election with the old man, and they are openly muttering that he is all that is keeping the Liberals in office...
Dorothy Pattern, the madwoman, plays her madness in the first act as though everyone else were crazy. She is a calm, inquisitive, if somewhat wacky, innocent here. But she rises with power and determination in the second act to lead her good allies to victory over the forces of darkness...
Meanwhile the south, where university classes were suspended for a week to calm rioting students, was hastily visited by a government envoy. Gist of his message: for the time being, the southerners can still correspond with the capital, if they wish, in the associate language...