Word: eventers
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...stunning scientific and intellectual accomplishment for a creature who, in the space of a few million years?an instant in evolutionary chronology?emerged from primeval forests to hurl himself at the stars. Its eventual effect on human civilization is a matter of conjecture. But it was in any event a shining reaffirmation of the optimistic premise that whatever man imagines he can bring to pass...
...appropriate that the event was watched by ordinary citizens in Prague as well as Paris, Bucharest as well as Boston, Warsaw as well as Wapakoneta, Ohio. In practically every other corner of the earth, newspapers broke out what pressmen refer to as their "Second Coming" type to hail the lunar landing. Poets hymned the occasion. Wrote Archibald MacLeish...
Even if the mission proved to be completely successful, it was much too soon to assess its true significance. Historian James MacGregor Burns was not impressed. "It's a very proud and fine day for all Americans," he said, "but it's an event apart from the main flow of history." Stanford Physicist Robert Hofstadter, a Nobel prizewinner, disagreed: "In a thousand years there will be few things remembered, but this will be one of them...
...A.M.A. reports simply that it has sent a flat amount to a state chapter. Individual members are told not to contribute more than $99 to the A.M.A. national fund, thereby excluding themselves from the federal law which requires that contributors giving $100 or more must be named. In any event, state-level gifts are hard to trace: only 43 states have reporting laws; these are honored mostly in the breach...
...term. Bowing to growing nationalistic feelings, Marcos already has begun to shift the Philippines toward a policy of assertive neutrality. The Philippines resent the fact that their base treaties with the U.S. are less generous than those just concluded with Spain, and would like to renegotiate them. In any event, Marcos wants the U.S. to hand over Sangley Point Naval Air Station to Philippine control and to return unused portions of the big Clark Air Force Base. Marcos may tell Nixon that he, too, is under pressure to bring home his troops from Viet Nam; he may even discuss plans...