Word: eventers
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...special sort of drama in the trembling instant of decision when the rocket ignites and begins to rise, and in the knowledge of the men strapped down inside the huge projectile -but the drama has become familiar from so many past launchings. The voyage of Apollo 8 was an event, of another magnitude altogether, and it transfixed a blase world Three U S astronauts were about to soar 230,000 miles to the moon, circle it ten times and return to earth In the eleventh year of the space age, man stood on the very threshold of exploration...
...likely event that there will be no breakthrough in the Paris talks in the next month, the new Administration must then attempt to find a settlement formula. If he cannot achieve the "honorable" terms he talked of during the campaign, Nixon's prospects for a successful Administration are practically nil. Beyond Viet Nam, Nixon is pledged to a "new diplomacy." Its aim is to concentrate heavily on the search for common ground with the Soviets and the rehabilitation of the Atlantic Alliance, to reach understanding
...Stakes. In any event, the next move is up to Johnson. Goldberg, who was an Associate Justice on the court for nearly three years before becoming Ambassador to the U.N. in 1965 - he resigned in June 1968 - would dearly like to have the job of Chief Justice. While some Senators could probably delay the Goldberg confirmation by filibustering, Senate reaction is generally favorable to the nomination. The question is whether, even at the end of his reign, Johnson is willing to place his domes tic leadership on trial again. At stake is the ideological complexion that the Supreme Court will...
Poor Vladimir. As usual, the press is in the forefront of defiance. The Reporter, banned for a month, welcomed itself back into print with a cover story on the student sit-in, two cartoons satirizing censorship, and an editorial promising to "demand justice" in the event of "any further interference with freedom of expression." Even under the system of self-censorship imposed on publications by the Soviets, it is surprising that so much irreverence got through. But the Reporter employed a rather special system for choosing its own censor, whose name happens to be Vladimir. As a fellow staffer explained...
There were a few bright spots for Brown. Captain Vance Salter coasted to victory in the backstroke event and Cyrus Miller fought Harvard's Kirk Dolby to finally...