Word: chapter
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...majestic Titan II rocket lifted off precisely on schedule, hurling Gemini 7 toward a new chapter in space exploration. Five minutes after Lieut. Colonel Frank Borman and Commander James Lovell Jr. took off, a ground controller exclaimed: "You're right down the slot!" Command Pilot Borman radioed back: "That's the best thing I've heard...
...October 15, members of the Michigan State chapter of Students for a Democratic Society and some supporters joined in the national day of protest by sitting-in at the Ann Arbor office of the Selective Service System. Thirty-nine people were arrested...
...when the subject is the State Department and its Secretary. In the Life excerpts, the discussion of the department occupied just one installment. Now it has been decentralized and sprawls over the book (the sentence about Kennedy's decision to fire Rusk has wandered way back into the last chapter). Every discussion of a foreign policy issue bristles with exasperated recollections of programs sidetracked, of speeches emasculated, of policies buried in Foggy Bottom. Dean Rusk is rarely mentioned without an accompanying broadside (most gratuitously, a footnote implies that Rusk shirked his advisor's duties during the Cuban crisis, a strange...
There are, of course, plenty of white hats. It seems to help greatly in these books to be a friend of the author's. Adlai Stevenson is an ever-valiant fighter, winning commendation from the President every chapter or two. Of Robert Kennedy, Schlesinger writes that "I do not know of any case in contemporary American politics where there has seemed to me a greater discrepancy between the myth and the man." Averell Harriman is the lone guerilla fighter standing up for truth in the State Department...
...recalls a comfortably idyllic New England boyhood (his English-born father was Episcopal Bishop of Connecticut), his years as law clerk to Supreme Court Justice Louis Brandeis, his practice with a Washington law firm. It is all consistently respectable and, alas, consistently unrevealing -except for one rewarding chapter on Under Secretary of the Treasury Acheson's squabble with F.D.R. The President's freewheeling economic policy offended Acheson's New England conservatism only slightly less than his flippant condescension to subordinates. "It is not gratifying," reports Acheson, "to receive the easy greeting which milord might give a promising...