Word: cooperating
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...sent a man into space since May 1963-when Astronaut Leroy Gordon Cooper stayed in orbit for 34 hr. 20 min. Cooper's flight signaled the end of the Mercury program and the start of the Gemini series of earth orbits in a two-man capsule. Gemini fell two years behind schedule because of technical problems and congressional heel-dragging on appropriations. This year the spacemen hope to make up for lost time: a three-orbit trip is scheduled for April, a four-day attempt for this summer, and if all goes well, there will be a week-long...
While The Bathers underwent routine restoration, British critics debated the extravagance. To buy the work, a real estate developer, Max Rayne, had put up $700,000, and the tax-supported National Gallery and the Crown had kicked in the rest. British Art Critic Douglas Cooper carped that it was "an inordinate amount of the taxpayers' money." He wrote: "I can only laugh at the gullibility of those who are so blinded by shame and the magic of a name that they cannot recognize a most undesirable failure...
Died. Kent Cooper, 84, general manager of the Associated Press from 1925 to 1948; of pneumonia; in West Palm Beach, Fla. A bluff, hearty farm boy from Indiana, "K.C.," as he liked to be called, was the visionary who built the A.P. into the world's largest news-gathering service: in the 1930s he pioneered the widespread use of the Teletype ticker and the transmission of photos by wire and radio, but made his major contribution by breaking ties with the cartel of European news services that once monopolized overseas stories, instead marshaling his own army of reporters...
King, who had been standing near by while Clark and Mrs. Cooper scuffled, later told a Negro meeting: "We have seen another day of brutality...
Born. To Gloria Vanderbilt, 40, oft-married heiress to a $5,000,000 share of the Vanderbilt fortune, and Wyatt Cooper, 40, Hollywood scriptwriter (The Chapman Report), her fourth husband: their first child, a son (she has two boys, 14 and 13, by Husband No. 2, Conductor Leopold Stokowski); in Manhattan...