Word: dears
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...steady his capsule as it curved along its predetermined arc in space. On the third orbit, Titov ate a three-course lunch, squeezed out of tubes like toothpaste. On the seventh orbit, after 9¼ hours in the air, Titov passed over Moscow, radioed: "I beg to wish dear Muscovites good night. I am turning in now. You do as you please, but I am turning in." With that, Titov lay back for the programed 7½ hours of sleep, actually overslept by 35 minutes. On the ground, Russian scientists kept telemetered watch over the sleeping cosmonaut's pulse...
Last week Kennedy's Treasury Secretary Douglas Dillon all but rubbed out the smudge in a "Dear Wilbur" letter to House Ways and Means Chairman Wilbur Mills of Arkansas. Even with Kennedy's new $3.5 billion more for defense, no tax hike will be needed, said Dillon, because the economy will grow so fast that present rates and expanded spending will yield sufficient income to support a bigger budget. But Dillon left himself an out. All this will not come to pass, he indicated, if there is "a further worsening of the international situation" and defense expenditures require...
...Dear Little Nira. U.S. companies were meanwhile calling themselves Alcoa (Aluminum Co. of America) or Nabisco (National Biscuit Co.) or Socony (Standard Oil Co. of New York). After the advent of Basic (British American Scientific International Commercial) English, acronyms faltered in favor of the New Deal's AAA, CCC, TVA, WPA, led by F.D.R. himself. Indeed, legend has it that the death of the National Industrial Recovery Act (ruled unconstitutional) left bereft of rhyme or reason a host of Depression-born U.S. girls named Nira...
...Walt" (as he liked to sign himself) checked in at one of the huge whitewashed dressing stations near the capital. It is easy to raise a coarse snigger at the ambiguity of Whitman's motives for playing the male nurse among what he called the "huge swarms of dear, wounded, sick and dying boys." Yet, if he had not visited them, the child soldiery in the wards would, for the most part, have been utterly alone with the horrors of 1860 surgery, infection and anesthesia. He liked to "buss" them and hold hands after lights...
Brazil's aloof Quadros unbent farther than he has for any other U.S. diplomat. He chatted with "my dear friend" Stevenson for two hours, told the press: "I firmly believe that relations between this democracy and the great democracy of North America will become constantly closer and more intimate." On Castro, whom Stevenson tactfully refrained from bringing up first, Quadros simply reiterated his previous stand: the dictator was a problem for Cuba, not the U.S. or the hemisphere, to solve...