Word: downe
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Shakespeare has spent much time visiting USIA branches, where staffers have been impressed by his enthusiasm and energy. But in some areas, his tunnel-vision partisanship has caused friction, especially since many of the 10,000 members of USIA are liberal Democrats left over from former Administrations. The widely respected...
The U.S. retains a nuclear arsenal big enough to deter potential enemies despite the elimination of the biological stocks. The President also made it absolutely clear that the restrictions on chemical weapons did not include CS gas-a stronger version of tear gas-or defoliants that are being used in...
But Shakespeare's assistant, R. Kenneth Towery, does not agree. The agency's mission, according to Towery, is to compete against the Communists. "I want to beat 'em down," he says, "and I don't care whether it takes the liberal or conservative viewpoint to do...
The astronauts' own splashdown was far more gentle. At the end of a three-day homeward flight that was uneventful to the point of boredom, Yankee Clipper dropped into the choppy Pacific 405 miles southeast of American Samoa-exactly 10 days 4 hr. and 36 min. after its lightning...
At week's end, as Apollo 12's astronauts bedded down in the LRL for the remainder of their 21-day quarantine, NASA was making plans for its next lunar expedition. Buoyed by the bull's-eye at Surveyor Crater, the space agency tentatively scheduled the launch...