Word: descent
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...gravity, they will be able to perform elaborate and delicate tasks. After several weeks in the lab, they will return to the capsule and close the hatch in the heat shield. After detaching the MOL and leaving it in orbit, they will ignite their retrorockets and make their flaming descent...
Last week, mixing solid business with image-making busyness, Man-in-Motion Johnson was in top form. Although the widow of New York's Herbert H. Lehman had begged the President not to run the security risk, he made a 2-hr. 28-min. descent on Manhattan for the funeral of his ex-Senate colleague, as some 2,500 New York City cops and uncounted federal agents maintained the tightest security precautions in memory. Back in Washington, Johnson sent a draft bill to Congress to put John Kennedy's profile on the U.S.'s 50? piece, wrote...
Oklahoma courts have decided that American Indians are "white" and therefore may not marry "any person of African descent." In Alabama, however, Indians are mulattoes, according to the courts, and therefore cannot marry whites. Filipinos in Louisiana must be able to prove that they are "not basically negroid" before they can marry whites. Indiana courts have revealed that "all Mexicans are not white persons and some of them are negroes," and therefore non-Negro Mexicans can marry either Negroes or whites...
...million estimate by almost 50%. The setback was enough to topple fast-running Managing Director Piero Giustiniani, the driving force behind Montecatini's expansion, and leave full command in the hands of the more conservative chairman, Count Carlo Faina, 69. Faina, a papal count who claims direct descent from Napoleon, guided Montecatini in the early postwar years, but had turned technical direction over to Giustiniani. After failing to raise more capital in Italy, Faina began negotiations with Shell to buy half of the Brindisi plant and another plant at Ferrara...
Many Italians drifted into politics. Since the social revolution triggered by Dictator Juan Perón (who was of Italian ancestry), Argentina's presidential palace has been home to a Lonardi, Frondizi, Guido, and now to Dr. Arturo Illia-all of them of Italian descent. Today, 1,200,000 of Argentina's 21 million people are Italian-born, and another 7,000,000 have Italian blood in their veins...