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Those may be harsh words, but they encompass a harsh situation. The very fact that they are being said in public should signal a more realistic approach to the war, to the enemy and-not least -to the American public...
...search for truth regarding the Apollo disaster [April 14], our governmental investigations should reach beyond the Apollo program per se to encompass the total space-program context in which Apollo has been cast...
...claim of modern industry on the brains and energy and honor and intelligence of man exceeds the claims that have ever before been made upon the intelligence and character of man. Modern industry, if we could only encompass it within our feeble imaginations, is the instrument by which it is given us to achieve in our lifetime nearly all that mankind has struggled for in centuries of blood and sweat and futility." April...
Today's successful formula combines a feeling for the news with a concern for culture and tries, like a daily newsmagazine, to encompass all human activity. The show did not shake down overnight, though, as film clips from a nostalgic anniversary program last week made embarrassingly evident. For the first nine years, Dave Garroway was host, or rather referee. Engineers, visible from behind the anchor desks, used to wave to their wives; J. Fred Muggs, the rubber-pantsed chimp, ran amuck on daily cue; publicists seemed to own the show, particularly if they were pushing gimmicky toys or beauty...
...more than pull the G.O.P. back from the brink. It reestablished an effective opposition in Congress, giving the two-party system some badly needed adrenalin. It also erased the Goldwater image of a narrow, negative clique, replacing it with the vision of a cohesive, inclusive party broad enough to encompass men as ideologically diverse as New York's Nelson Rockefeller on the left and California's Ronald Reagan on the right. It is broad enough, too, not only for a polished politician with the all-American looks of Oregon's Senator Mark Hatfield or a self-made millionaire like Illinois...