Word: columbus
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...answer to Reader Rosey's query [July 30], "Was this trip necessary?": I believe that the 1965 Mariner IV trip to Mars was no more necessary than the 1492 Columbus trip to America-but Mariner's impact on mankind may be greater...
Local incidents have aroused storms of protest. Citizens of Columbus, Ind., were understandably upset last month when eight Job Corpsmen were charged with sodomy after an attack on a 17-year-old fellow corpsman. In Oklahoma City, after an investment of almost $100,000, a Neighborhood Youth Corps was dissolved when local officials failed to receive word from Washington assuring them of financing through the summer; only after the project's 300 boys had been laid off did the Oklahoma City directors learn that a telegram giving them the green light had been sent, through bureaucratic bungling...
...ordained by God, might have a value in itself. And while Renaissance churchmen still denounced contraception, a few pioneering thinkers were beginning to talk about the human values of sex. In the 15th century, Martin le Maistre of Paris formally declared that sexual pleasure was a positive good; Columbus' contemporary, John Major of Scotland, wrote that it was no more a sin to copulate for pleasure than "to eat a handsome apple for the pleasure...
...away -symptoms of leprosy. Others lie on hospital beds, held down by restraining bonds as if they had a violent illness. Some seem to show the ravages of smallpox, cancer, dropsy, malnutrition, and give evidence of impressive achievements in techniques of amputation and other surgery a thousand years before Columbus. Pregnancy, an annual event, is portrayed as a happy occurrence, except for one rare sculpture of a dejected girl at term. Dr. Weisman speculates that "she's only eleven or twelve. I think it is her first baby and she's worried about it." A series of works...
...acts more erratic. In 1915, he led his army into open rebellion against the government. He tried to enlist the sympathy of the U.S. press by staging a real battle at the request of a film company. He tried to discredit the regime by raiding the border town of Columbus, N. Mex., and, although he achieved headline notoriety by disappearing with his whole army while General "Black Jack" Pershing led a 12,000-man punitive expedition after him, Obregon did not fall...