Word: elements
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Whatever the fate of the Soviet craft, its launching on the eve of Apollo 11's lift-off underscored the fact that the controlling element in Soviet-U.S. space relations is still competition, not cooperation. Yet the question remains: With man now venturing to extraterrestrial bodies, how good are the chances for future joint efforts by the two superpowers? Said Lovell: "The time will come, within ten years, when considerable amounts of equipment will be left on the moon and lunar bases established, and international cooperation will become essential. Otherwise, a very serious situation might arise, both scientifically...
...disciplined design with which Walter Gropius refashioned architecture Laszlo Moholy-Nagy sought to extend to every visible element in the human environment. The two men had been kindred spirits ever since Gropius visited Moholy's first exhibition in Berlin in 1922, and invited the young Hungarian expatriate to join his staff at the newly formed Bauhaus. Moholy's acceptance sealed a friendship, rooted in a rare meeting of minds, that was to last until his death...
...know that reform has become politically popular. Tax reform is necessary, said Chairman Russell Long of the Senate Finance Committee. But extension of the surtax, he added, should be passed "before the summer recess. To mire the surtax in endless controversy over reform, said Long, would add another explosive element of uncertainty to the economy...
Violence emerges as a primordal force, edging most of the men on and trapping the three principals. It brings us closer to blood which, after all, is the fundamental element of life. It is not, as the final track to a high angle demonstrates, a liberating force. This force of beauty is one which will not let go. At the end of the film Holden and Borgnine are dead and Ryan is left to become part of a revolution which has no meaning...
There was, to be sure, an element of the convert's zeal on the part of the proponents of last week's resolution, several of whom have admitted that they were negligent in not objecting much earlier to Viet Nam policy. Its chief sponsor, in fact, was J. William Fulbright, who five years ago also sponsored the Gulf of Tonkin resolution -the measure that the Johnson Administration later claimed was the "functional equivalent" of a declaration of war. In part at least, last week's National Commitments resolution is the doves' belated atonement for the Tonkin...