Word: closing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...already changed his mind. The Apollo 8 moon mission, he feels, should have an air of unmatched excitement. Washington Correspondent David Lee and Houston Stringer James Schefter, who also reported for this week's cover, agree. The close race with the Russians, the pride of trailblazing, the somberness of three men risking their lives-all combine to give this next moonbound flight a very special aura...
...White House press secretary. That job will be filled by Ronald Ziegler, 29, a former California advertising account executive (Disneyland was his chief project) with neither political nor journalistic experience. Unlike Ike's James Hagerty or L.B.J.'s Bill Moyers and George Christian, Ziegler has never been close to his boss, and is not expected to participate in the high counsels of government...
More Through Television. For some months at least, Ziegler will probably preside over press briefings under the critical gaze of Nixon Aide Bob Haldeman, who used to be Ziegler's boss at J. Walter Thompson in Los Angeles. Haldeman is the most close-mouthed in dividual in Nixon's notably taciturn fraternity, and White House correspondents anticipate some barren days in the West Wing, even by the standards of L.B.J.'s aides, who were never famous for garrulity with the press...
Keller, the much heralded swordsman who was undefeated as a freshman, lost one of his bouts and came close to dropping another. Keller seemed nervous in his first varsity appearance and lost his first match 5-1. He nearly dropped the second but rallied to win 5-4. He seemed tight and lacked the easy grace which carried him last year...
...these mind-busting advances were made in isolation in the sense that they do not belong on any of the albums. "A Day in the Life" was so out of place on Sergeant Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band that the Beatles felt compelled to close the album theme just before the song came...