Word: establish
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Preoccupied by the Viet Nam war and proliferating troubles at home, the White House has placed a low priority on establishing America's post-Apollo goals in space. Unless stimulating goals are enunciated, the team that made Apollo possible may begin to disintegrate for lack of a sufficiently compelling challenge. For purely technical reasons as well, time may be running out if the Administration is to maintain America's current lead in space. The last of the 15 first stages for the Saturn 5, NASA's journeyman booster for manned flight, will roll off assembly lines...
...permanent home. Since World War II, Nixon's career has taken them to Washington, California, New York and now Washington again. But Dick and Pat Nixon were raised in California, and last week they were wrapping up final details to buy a house that could re-establish their roots in their old state...
During the past year, another one of the minischools that De Maria helped to establish underground has emerged in the public eye: earthworks. In the winter of 1961-62, De Maria sketched plans for a pair of mile-long walls, 12 ft. high and 12 ft. apart, to be built "somewhere in the Western United States." Though no collector could afford the $500,000 needed to build it, De Maria and a fellow worker flew out to the Mojave Desert and chalked two half -mile-long lines on its surface. They photographed each other standing, or lying between the oppressively...
...Synthetics. Such impassioned distortions only becloud the truth about the Pill, which is difficult enough to establish. From the most recent technical reports, however, these conclusions emerge: 1) the Pill is the most effective contraceptive yet devised; 2) like any other potent drug, it sometimes produces side effects that may be crippling or fatal to a minute proportion of users; 3) while the risks of such side effects appear to have been wildly exaggerated, there are some women for whom the Pill should never be prescribed...
Wholesale Intrusions. In the Davis case, the state contended that because the detention occurred during the investigatory rather than accusatory stage, there was no need to establish probable cause. Not so, wrote Justice William Brennan; to allow such investigatory seizures "would subject unlimited numbers of innocent persons to harassment and ignominy. Nothing is more clear than that the Fourth Amendment was meant to prevent wholesale intrusions on the personal security of our citizenry, whether these intrusions be termed 'arrests' or 'investigatory detentions.' " Since the seizure was improper, Brennan continued, the resulting fingerprints could not be used...