Word: closing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...human race." The sarcasm is seldom allowed to speak for itself in this film about a space odyssey that goes awry and crash-lands three astronauts on an unknown planet. They have been traveling for a cool millennium or so, but their craft has been zooming along at close to the speed of light, and so-in accordance with Einstein's Time-Dilation Theory-they have scarcely aged, save for some grey in their beards. At first, all they find is sand, but soon they stumble across a primitive tribe of mute cave people. "If this is the best...
...Chemist Linus Pauling that temporarily threw him off course, enabling Watson and Crick to win the DNA race; the distraction of wine and popsies at Cambridge University, where much of the great work was carried out. Burdened by the complex details of DNA research, Double Helix does not quite close the gap between C. P. Snow's "two cultures," but certainly narrows...
...rights bills last Wednesday, seven votes short of the necessary two-thirds. In a 55-37 fight, the bill was defeated by the ever obstreperous group of Southern Democrats and Republicans who scotched so much worthwhile legislation in the last congressional session. The United States has not been so close to internal warfare in the last hundred years. It can little afford such chicanery...
...next act of this saddening spectacle will be played out on Monday when Senator Mansfield (D-Mont.) will again try to close the discussion. To get the open housing bill through, supporters will probably offer to exempt single-family homes. At present only owner-occupied homes of up to four units are exempt, the "Mrs. Murphy's boarding houses." On the civil rights bill, Dirksen himself has offered an amendment, suggesting that the states be allowed six months to act against the offenders. The federal government would interfere only after six months, if a state had failed to take action...
...heavyweight Bob Panoff's 3:09 pin over Rutgers' Maurice Hill could only bring the Crimson close in a losing cause. Panoff's pin was the fourth of four straight victories for the Harvard heavyweights that pulled the team back from a 19-3 deficit after the 160-pound bout...