Word: closing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...with the close but bitterly divisive 1968 campaign behind him, Humphrey probably could not run for the presidency again without reducing the party to a shambles, splitting off the younger, activist wings that barely tolerated him last year. ∙EDMUND MUSKIE. In the first six months of this year, Muskie crisscrossed the nation on lecture tours that built his popularity among both regular and irregular Democrats. Last week he said he will resume his travels in the fall. In some ways, he is the most promising Democratic prospect-and doubtless the one who benefits most from Kennedy's troubles...
...Administration. The extension will bring in $5.6 billion. The House-approved Administration bill, which would continue the levy at 5% for an additional six months starting Jan. 1, would bring in $7.6 billion. Still, the Administration seemed content with two-thirds of a loaf. It came perilously close to getting nothing...
...planet-information about the density and composition of its atmosphere and its varying surface temperatures. On board the ungainly, 850-lb. ship, whose four solar panels gave it the look of a stubby windmill, tiny transmitters also sent back to earth, some 60 million miles away, the best close-up portrait man has ever had of Mars. At week's end, an identical twin named Mariner 7 moved into position for similar electronic observations. Mariner 6 aimed its close-up cameras on Martian equatorial regions, Mariner 7 at the planet's south polar area. Together they were programmed...
...following day, Mariner 6 produced 17 more Martian photographs from as close as 111,400 miles. Far more stunning than the earlier series, these pictures brought out what seemed like cloud formations near the south pole, verified the presence of numerous craters, and revealed shadings in what had previously been thought to be an all-white polar cap. Leighton spotted at least two features that he thought might be "canals," although he speculated that they might have been caused by electronic noise...
...expected, the final 24 photographs that were shot just before Mariner 6 ducked behind Mars were the most dramatic. Taken from as close as 2,170 miles, they showed a bleak, forbidding landscape, unmistakably similar to the harsh terrain of the moon. "I've seen so many craters I'd hesitate to count them," said Leighton. "We expected craters, but not in such fantastic number...