Word: ens
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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KING AND COUNTRY. Pity and terror are evoked by Director Joseph Losey (The Servant) and by Actor Tom Courtenay as a baffled army deserter en route to his execution during World...
Around 8, Moyers steps into a waiting limousine for the drive across the Potomac, scans four or five morning papers and the Congressional Record en route. At the circular desk in his office, furnished in the phone-booth-functional L.B.J. style that staffers call "Pedernales Renaissance," he phones the other special assistants to check the agenda. At 9, Moyers and his colleagues generally spend an hour with the President reviewing assignments and problems. Back in his office, Moyers prepares for his 11 a.m. press briefing, phoning Lyndon for .final instructions ten minutes before hand. Afterward, he leaves his door open...
KING AND COUNTRY. Pity and terror are evoked by Director Joseph Losey (The Servant) and by Actor Tom Courtenay as a baffled army deserter en route to his execution during World...
...hopes to begin shuttling refugees from Cuba within ten days. Until then, the U.S. is doing its best to keep Cuban exiles from grabbing every little outboard and runabout in Florida and dashing across the stormy, shark-infested Straits of Florida on rescue missions. All last week a doz en Coast Guard helicopters and patrol boats prowled the area with orders to use "every means of persuasion" to keep the exiles from taking things into their own hands. The U.S. even threatened them with civil or criminal prosecution (up to $2,000 fine and five years in jail), if they...
Most of the equipment actually exceeded expectations. Cousteau's prototype breathing apparatus, which recycles a helium-based artificial atmosphere supplied from the sphere, en abled divers to work outside the cap sule without any time limit. Inside, a miniaturized mass spectrograph, especially adapted for the experiment, monitored composition of the atmosphere, transmitting the results both to the oceanauts and to the surface so that any dangerous variations would be immediately detected...