Word: counts
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...that was supposed to control the missile's many instruments and trans mit the data back to earth. As a result, the spacecraft's velocity could not be slowed before it hit the moon. The scientists got no television pictures of the moon as planned; they could count no ' meteorites nor could their carefully packed moonquake meter land in working order. Discouraged, one National Aeronautics and Space Administration official lamented: "All we've got is an idiot with a radio signal." But idiot or not, for the first time, the U.S. had actually hit the moon...
Died. General Count Jacques Aldebert de Chambrun, 89, stalwart servant of two nations, an honorary U.S. citizen by virtue of his direct descent from the Marquis de Lafayette, a Sahara-seasoned French soldier who aided the A.E.F. by serving on General Pershing's staff, in World War II kept open both the American Hospital and American Library in Paris; after a short illness; in Paris...
NONFICTION 1. Calories Don't Count, Taller (2) 2. My Life in Court, Nizer (1) 3. The Rothschilds, Morton (3) 4. The Guns of August, Tuchman (4) 5. Six Crises, Nixon (5) 6 The Making of the President 1960, White (6) 7. CIA: The Inside Story, Tully (8) 8. The Last Plantagenets, Costain (10) 9. Scott Jitzgerald, Turnbull (7) 10. The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich, Shirer...
...wore on, and pitchers for both sides ran the count to 3-2 on almost every batter, it became a question of whether or not the Crimson could keep from freezing before being awarded its victory. The varsity scored in every inning except two as it battered three Tech pitchers for 14 hits, including a home run and two long triples...
Charlie, the CRIMSON's pet mouse, made an unexpected entrance from behind the cigarette machine. The wee beastie frightened 38 (count 'em) girls out of the building...