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Word: controled (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Humanity is faced with three major problems. No. 1 is how to control the burgeoning population of our species. When we solve that, we may have a chance to lick No. 2-the eradication of hunger. Once that is accomplished, there is a possibility we might move on to No. 3-elimination...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Aug. 1, 1969 | 8/1/1969 | See Source »

...demonstrated technological virtuosity to help master its vexing difficulties at home? Emmanuel Mesthene, director of a Harvard research program on technology and society, believes that an important preface to that goal is already under way. "Our society," he argues, "is coming to a deliberate decision to understand and control technology to good social purpose." Perhaps, but major obstacles clearly remain. Going to the moon is easier-and far less costly-than rebuilding American cities and uplifting the disinherited. There is no obvious prod of international competition, no single challenge perceived and response desired by a cohesive majority...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: THE MOON AND MIDDLE AMERICA | 8/1/1969 | See Source »

...recollection of these words evoked bitter irony last week. Kennedy's career was threatened not by a violent enemy or a political foe but by a scandal that revealed a shocking lapse of judgment and control...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Mysteries of Chappaquiddick | 8/1/1969 | See Source »

...Mike Collins, the journey concluded as flawlessly as it had begun 195 hours, 18 minutes and 21 seconds earlier. President Nixon, waiting aboard the Hornet to greet the astronauts, hailed their achievement with buoyant enthusiasm. At the same time, over 4,000 miles away in Houston's Mission Control, nerve center of the flight, John F. Kennedy's 1961 pledge that the U.S. would land a man on the moon "before this decade is out" flashed on a display board. Near by, a smaller screen carried Apollo 11 's Eagle emblem along with the immensely proud statement...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Moon: TASK ACCOMPLISHED | 8/1/1969 | See Source »

These have not been accidental statements of petty men--they have come from public spokesmen of the American ruling class, a small group of men who own and control the large corporations, the U.S. government, and the universities--including Harvard. They derive their profits and power all over the world. They are the men who sit on the Harvard Corporation and who use Harvard to further their personal interests and those of their class. They use ROTC to train students to put down popular rebellions from Detroit to Vietanam--rebellions against the daily oppression millions of people face...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Statements by Committee, Stauder | 7/29/1969 | See Source »

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