Word: earth
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...from Nashville, John L. Hill, was present. Hill never forgot the sermon. After the death in 1944 of First Baptist's best-known preacher, Dr. George W. Truett, the congregation consulted Hill about a successor. He wrote back: "W. A. Criswell is the only man in all the earth...
...Clementi firmly believes that test-tube computers will bring new precision to chemistry. They will also enable scientists for the first time to study otherwise inaccessible chemical reactions that occur in the extreme temperatures of rocket engines, for example, or under the stupendous pressures at the center of the earth. "In safety and at their leisure," says Clementi, "they will be able to produce these reactions in a computer that will not melt in the heat or collapse from the pressure...
Whether all this adds up to a favorable or unfavourable "racial image" (whatever on earth that may be) I don't know. Frankly, I couldn't care less. I can say, however, that Jeffrey Howard is perfectly correct in remarking that "Kilson's views are not particularly black," if by this he means I resist anti-intellectualism and racial bigotry. Indeed, he could have said more: I despise racial bigots and the know-nothing mentality, and am rather proud of it. Martin Kilson Assistant Professor of Government
...launched an impressive reminder that they are still running hard in the race to the moon. With no advance fanfare, Russia's tenth manned spacecraft, Soyuz 3, soared into orbit, piloted by fledgling Cosmonaut Colonel Georgy Beregovoy, 47. On the craft's very first pass around the earth, he made a rendezvous with Soyuz 2, an unmanned spacecraft that had been fired aloft the dav before...
...Russians may be merely practicing hook-up procedures, a maneuver that U.S. spacemen have already perfected, or building an earth-orbiting space station. Indeed, there were suggestions that before the week ended a third capsule might be launched to join the first two. But the Russians may also be assembling the pieces of a composite spaceship, bound for the moon. U.S. space experts studied that technique years ago and abandoned it as too expensive. The Soviets' last space shot, a circumlunar mission powered by a giant booster, suggested that they too had made the same decision...