Word: edwin
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Washington expects Pope Paul to plead for a Christmas truce, as he did a year ago. A group of prominent American clergymen has asked for a cessation of bombing. Harvard Professor Edwin Reischauer, former U.S. Ambassador to Japan and now head of a State Department advisory group on Asian affairs, wrote that a gradual suspension of bombing "probably would be the wise course." U Thant has repeatedly urged the U.S. to call off the raids, and the Administration is aware that most free-world governments also favor a pause...
...life is no exception. The notes that suicides leave behind suggest that they rarely appreciate the fact that they will not be around to enjoy the fruits of their action. In analyzing 721 suicide notes collected by the Los Angeles county coroner's office, Psychologists Edwin S. Shneidman and Norman L. Farberow were struck by the many instructions, admonitions and lists of things to do that seemed to epitomize "the illogicality of the entire suicidal deed-thinking simultaneously and contradictorily of being absent and giving orders as though one were going to be present to enforce them...
Swaying under a marigold-and-white parachute, and clearly visible on millions of television screens, Gemini 12 splashed into the Sargasso Sea last week, bringing Astronauts James Lovell and Edwin Aldrin safely back from their successful four-day trip in space. The splashdown marked the triumphant end of NASA's remarkably fruitful Gemini program. Since March 1965, the Gemini astronauts have made ten manned flights, rendezvoused ten times with target vehicles, docked nine times, and set a host of other space records. They have also proved that man can fly as safely in spacecraft as in airplanes, and that...
Brown; Biblical Scholar Edwin Good; Novak, a onetime seminarian in Rome who studied for his doctorate at Harvard; and Church Historian William Clebsch, formerly of Texas' Episcopal Theological Seminary of the Southwest...
Adam Yarmolinsky, former Assistant Secretary of Defense, Stanley H. Hoffmann, professor of Government at Harvard, Edwin O. Reischauer, University Professor and former ambassador to Japan, and Ernest R. May, professor of American History have all accepted. The State Department has expressed interest in the conference, but has not yet sent any formal acceptance...