Word: catches
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...module. They practiced a single maneuver?the powered descent to the lunar surface?at least 150 times. Flight Surgeon Berry was seriously concerned about their grueling schedule. He feared that the men might become so tired that their resistance to disease would be dangerously low and that they would catch the flu or one of the gastrointestinal disturbances that afflicted three of the previous four Apollo crews. If that happens, says Berry, "I'll have the whole world on my back demanding proof that they are not down with some moon bug." Berry publicly discouraged Richard Nixon from dining with...
...ahead with the Apollo program. Then came Cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin's orbital flight, the first ever made by man. Two days after the Soviet breakthrough, Kennedy convened the nation's top space experts at the White House. "If somebody can just tell me how to catch up," he said. "There is nothing more important...
...prices on many goods to Malay buyers and cut off paja (credit), by which many a Malay farmer buys seed for his next crop. More ominous still, the conflict, at first only an urban affair, is spreading to the countryside. Chinese-owned pickup trucks have ceased collecting the fishing catch from the Strait of Malacca. The eagerly awaited season for durian, a large and delectable strong-scented fruit grown only in Asia, is now at its peak. In any other year, Malay farmers would make small fortunes on this rare fruit. Last week durians were rotting by the roadside because...
...raises are enabling some traditionally underrewarded workers to catch up. In New York City, for ex ample, the poorly paid public-school teacher is a figure of legend. Last week the teachers' union ratified a contract that, by 1972, will give some top mem bers $16,950 - for 40 weeks' work a year. Raises averaging 9.1%, which took effect last week, will bring the pay of two million U.S. Government civilian employees up to what their counterparts in private industry were collecting a year ago. A deputy bureau commissioner in a large department, for instance, goes up from...
...many cases, however, the game of catch-up threatens to turn into an inflationary game of leapfrog. The 49% increase achieved by Lorain construction workers was intended to bring their pay and benefits by next summer up to levels prevailing in nearby Cleveland. But Cleveland building unionists, seeking to restore their primacy, now vow to press for a still larger raise in negotiations next spring...