Word: doves
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...space capsule, Vostok VI, "Valya" was still the compleat Soviet woman. Her space suit was embroidered with a snow-white dove, and she had had her hair done before blastoff. Once a tomboy, she now has an admitted weakness for spike heels, stylish clothes, and a perfume called Red Moscow. From space she radioed ground control: "Please tell Mamma not to worry." Once, when ground scientists lost contact with "Seagull" (Valya's orbital call name), they hastily ordered her cosmic companion in Vostok V, Lieut. Colonel Valery Feodorovich Bykovsky, to try and rouse her. "Sorry, I was having...
Both in and out, it was a tough commute. A Jeep steering wheel came off. The Jeep dove into a gorge and had to be repaired with Scotch tape and fishing pliers. The governments of both Argentina and Chile, deciding that this was really a smuggling expedition, sent police along to make sure that dry flies were the only things being cast across the border...
Princeton's other firsts came in the medley relay, which they won in 3:48.9, and the dove, which John Andrews won with an impressive 78 points, followed by Scott Andrews and Jeff Lewy...
...soft-thinker. An appeaser. A Munich-seeker. A dove. A better-red-than-deader. An ill-concealed unilateralist...
Aside from some demonstrable inaccuracies in the story, the whole hawk-dove theme was a vast oversimplification. In an effort to examine all possibilities, everybody at the Executive Committee meetings offered ideas that they were not willing to live or die by. That was the advisers' function-and the final decisions were the President's. There was no doubt whatever about where he stood: during the hottest moments of the Cuba crisis he was planning in the most positive terms to invade Cuba if the Soviet Union did not forthwith promise to remove its missiles...