Word: cons
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Life aboard Gemini 4 settled into a routine that seemed almost mundane after Ed White's 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...
...House of Representatives might have been debating the merits of apple pie for all the opposition that was voiced. Before the House was President Johnson's proposed $4.8 billion excise-tax cut, and House leaders had set aside five hours one day last week for pro and con on the bill. But there was so little con that the debate lasted barely three hours, after which the House passed the bill by a vote of 401 to 6.* As whooshed through by the House, the bill would repeal "luxury" taxes in three stages over four years. The first reduction...
Fully aware that probably half his own Cabinet opposes tight ties to Europe, Wilson has carefully avoided taking a public position pro or con. And what steps he has taken have not been in terms of lofty morals and principles-the approach of his Tory predecessors. "Of course he is pro-Europe," says one Wilson intimate, "but he is a practical man who wants to do practical things to bring all Europeans together." This has taken the form of what Wilson calls "building bridges" to the Continent. In a series of trips during the past three months, he has touched...
...telephone interview last, night, Detective Captain James J. Cavoti of the Rochester police, who supervised the investigation, vigorously denied the newspaper's assertion. A reliable source in Rochester affirmed that the diaries con- tain "nothing indecent or scandalous...
...rarely rose to the rank of trail foreman, and occasionally they were molested by rebels who had forgotten Appomattox, but most of them met with very little discrimination. The settlers of Wyoming voluntarily desegregated their first public school. Negroes won tall-tale reputations as cooks and bulldoggers, and as con-men and outlaws too. As Durham and Jones unfelicitously put it, "To be a good cowboy one needed first of all to be a good man, for a wild longhorn had no more respect for a white Texan than for a Negro...