Word: doctoral
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...keep its manned space effort alive by using surplus Saturn 4B rockets-which now serve as the third stage of the Apollo launch vehicle-for earth-orbiting flights. This effort, dubbed the Apollo Applications Program, will begin in 1971 with a 28-day flight by three men-one a doctor. These vehicles are only forerunners of a giant space station that NASA plans to orbit by the late 1970s. The first station will probably accommodate twelve people, including the first American spacewoman. It will remain aloft for at least ten years, with crew members rotated every six months...
According to Teddy's statement, he left the Dike Bridge in shock and on foot, wet and minus his passenger. Why Teddy told no one about the accident and did not seek help for the girl, why no one called a doctor or even asked Kennedy what had happened-and indeed how he got back to his hotel-are questions, that must now puzzle not only the police, but also Ted Kennedy and his nationwide constituency...
...movies' new rating system, may be astonished to learn that he is the father of Easy Rider (rated R). In a speech before the M.P.A.A. in 1967, Valenti said he was weary, weary, weary of the excesses in drug and motorcycle films. He wished for theaters full of Doctor Dolittles. Waiting in the wings, the next speaker made a perverse resolution: to make a good movie about drugs and motorcycles...
...ringside went for $100), took the early advantage. In the third round Frazier caught Quarry with a sweeping left hook, opening a deep inch-long gash under the challenger's eye. By the end of the seventh round, Quarry's vision was impaired, and the ring doctor stopped the fight...
...reader can balance Reston's less blatant but equally tenacious ambition, and his curious notion that what is good for Reston and the Times is good for the U.S. as well. This peculiar confusion of allegiances, Talese suggests, led Reston, "on grounds of national security," to help doctor a report on the Bay of Pigs which, if printed when and as written, might have prevented the attack from being launched...