Word: conrade
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...excursion into raw space. Yet even as the mission con tinued to circle the earth, there was new Project Gemini activity. Work had begun at Cape Kennedy to mount and prepare another Titan II missile, topped by another spacecraft: Gemini 5, which will carry Astronauts Gordon Cooper and Charles Conrad on a seven-day space expedition in late August...
Squads of security police stormed into the magazine's Hamburg head quarters and its bureau in Bonn, ransacking files and arresting everyone in sight. Publisher Rudolf Augstein was held without bail, and Military Editor Conrad Ahlers was forcibly sent back from a vacation in Spain. In the Defense Ministry, Strauss issued a hastily prepared memorandum charging that Der Spiegel had betrayed military secrets. In the Bundestag, Chancellor Konrad Adenauer shook with rage as he denounced "an abyss of treason in this land." The public and press reacted in a different way. "Gestapo!" roared newspapers throughout the land. Students marched...
That was probably the most savage criticism The Sound of Music, a generally sunny film starring Julie Andrews, drew from anyone. Mrs. Crist acknowledged the ensuing uproar: "You can be against God; you can be against Conrad; but brother, if you're against The Sound of Music, you're the lowest of the low. If I had beaten my mother to a pulp, strangled my small child, and slit the throat of my little puppy dog, I wouldn't have seemed so odious...
...next fall's freshman class. Philip's two elder sisters had attended Wellesley and the son's failure was a blow to his affluent father, a gas company executive. "What do you say when a school says your son is too stupid to get in?" asked Conrad. "My reaction is..." "Careful, dear," cautioned Mrs. Conrad. "My reaction is that we're very fortunate in being accepted by two of the five schools we picked, and we are on the waiting list on one other...
...unlike many applicants, Conrad, Brookstone, Lubliner and Mermel enjoy ample consolation. Conrad has been accepted by Cornell, Brookstone will go to George Washington, Lubliner has been encouraged to apply to Boston U., and Mermel got a green light from the University of Chicago...