Word: cooperatives
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Though most Congressmen expressed no objections to the deal, a vocal minority last week began lambasting it. "Why not sell the Russians our tobacco surplus?" said Idaho Democrat Ralph Harding. "They might contract lung cancer." In the Senate, Kentucky Republican John Sherman Cooper declared, "I dislike seeing the United States, great nation that it is, chasing off in a grubby manner after Russian gold." In Coronado, Calif., Goldwater reversed his field, charged that the wheat sale, coming on top of the proposed joint moon venture, is fresh proof that the Kennedys are running "a Soviet-American mutual aid society...
With a pinpoint, mid-Pacific landing by Major Leroy Gordon Cooper, a roar of triumph and a burst of national pride, the Mercury phase of the U.S.'s man-in-space program ended last May. Last week it seemed apparent that, save for sheer luck and pluck, Project Mercury might just as readily have ended in disaster. In a 444-page epilogue to Mercury, the National Aeronautics and Space Administration told a hair-raising tale of failures, ineptitude and just plain carelessness among the private contractors who built and equipped the space capsules...
...Cooper flight, the control cords holding the retrorocket package to the capsule failed to fall free as intended because the explosive separating devices "were not loaded with the appropriate charge...
...Also on the Cooper flight, a capsule system designed to remove moisture and perspiration became clogged with metal shavings from a pump shaft...
...been unranked since his recent emergence from a mental hospital. And that brings us to Floyd Patterson. The former champ, victor over such ring luminaries as Tom McNeeley, Brian London, Pete Rademacher, and Roy Harris is now looking for fights with the likes of Billy Daniels and Henry Cooper. The only real difference between Floyd the champ and Floyd the number-seven contender is that he now has to go the bums rather than letting them come to him. And that is a difference. Even for those of us who saw Patterson's reign as a tragedy and travesty...