Word: crisps
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...cameras. Without further fuss the incredible moon photos began to come down in a steady stream. In 1.3 seconds they made the long journey from the moon to J.P.L.'s control station in the Mojave Desert. They jumped by microwave to Pasadena, appeared in crisp detail on fine-grained, 1,152-line picture tubes and were transformed into the standard 500-line pictures of U.S. commercial television. Never had so many people had so intimate a look at the full glory of high technical achievement...
Heavy rain had fallen during the night, but Sunday dawned crisp and clear for the dedication of the new brick Christian Union Baptist Church on the outskirts of Jackson, Miss. Nearly 400 people were on hand for the ceremony, which was a landmark in the religious history of the South. Christian Union, a Negro church set afire by white extremists last July, was rebuilt with the help of an interracial group of Mississippians who call themselves the Committee of Concern...
...small farming community in the Andean foothills 225 miles northeast of Bogotá. Wearing khaki uniforms and FALN-type arm bands, the raiders attacked the police post with modern automatic weapons, killing three policemen and a child who wandered into the line of fire. With crisp military precision, they then cut communication lines, looted the government Agrarian Bank of $5,300, snatched the cashbox from the local brewery, and stole arms and ammunition from police headquarters. One of the leaders was a pretty blonde girl of about 19 who was called Comrade Mariela. After two hours, the invaders vanished into...
BEETHOVEN: CHORAL FANTASY (Columbia). Rudolf Serkin gives a crisp and exhilarating performance of this unique work for piano, chorus and orchestra, which foreshadowed the choral finale of the Ninth Symphony...
...first transports were back in Leopoldville. They were chockablock with living, dead, dying and wounded. They kept coming all day: crisp white nuns and an old priest in a black Homburg; two little girls, bloodstained, holding tightly to their dolls; a mother and daughter in pajamas and no shoes; a baby with its feet sticking out of an airline...