Word: edwin
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...vehicles that will take Astronauts Neil Armstrong, Edwin Aldrin and Michael Collins on their epic journey have been aptly named. The lunar module that will land on the moon's surface has been christened Eagle because, Armstrong said, it is "representative of the flight and the nation's hope." The command module that will carry the astronauts back to earth has been dubbed Columbia, a close approximation of Columbiad, the name that Jules Verne gave to his lunar craft in his 1865 novel, From the Earth to the Moon. Prophetically, Verne launched Columbiad from a site in Florida...
...hold services regularly. Among the White House preachers since Graham have been the Roman Catholic Archbishop of New York, Terence Cardinal Cooke, Rabbi Louis Finkelstein, chancellor of New York's Jewish Theological Seminary, Dr. Norman Vincent Peale of Manhattan's Marble Collegiate Church, and Dr. R. H. Edwin Espy, general secretary of the National Council of Churches...
...Professor Michael Severn: "The mood is sullen. Students are not happy. They have had a taste of influence and power and they have not accomplished much." Like other campus elders, Severn fears that next year could be worse-and that new violence could invite a "real crackdown." Father Edwin Quain, acting president of Georgetown University in Washington, notes that "the freshmen are much more radical than the seniors, and I'm told that the high school students coming up are even more...
...should play a less conspicuous role in the annual campaign at the United Nations against Peking's admission. Says former Ambassador to Japan Edwin O. Reischauer: "The moral judgment implied in the blackballing of the largest nonwhite nation by the most powerful white nation is deeply insulting to the Chinese and irritating to many other people in the world." With or without U.S. lobbying, the vote will probably go against Peking for some time. Even if it turns favorable, there are no indications that Peking will accept a seat until its terms for entering the U.N. are met; Peking...
...gave it a plug or two, and record companies started a bidding war for the album. New York's Buddah Records got there first and capped the deal with a $55,000 advance and a $25,-000 bonus. Buddah changed the group's name to the Edwin Hawkins Singers, put the record out-and the world smiled...