Word: eyeful
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Washington's Grace Reformed Church: "Most gracious God, we thank Thee for the miracle of our conscious life by which we behold the wonders of the universe." Then up rose a Senator who had recently beheld the wonders of the universe with Washington's keenest political eye. As the opening order of business. Senate Majority Leader Lyndon Baines Johnson moved consideration of a senatorial first step into space, to wit, his own resolution, establishing a Senate special committee on Astronautical and Space Exploration. Under Lyndon Johnson's sure hand the motion carried 78-1; Louisiana...
...silken women of the East, few have been more diligently trained in eye-fluttering subservience than the reed-slim Tonkinese and Annamese maidens of South Viet Nam. But when President Ngo Dinh Diem proclaimed his nation's independence two years ago, his newly enfranchised countrywomen began to remold their personalities under the leadership of the President's keenly intelligent sister-in-law, beauteous, sloe-eyed Madame Ngo Dinh Nhu. With the help of her enormous charm and an occasional whisk of a sandalwood fan, Madame Ngo got herself elected to South Viet Nam's National Assembly, helped...
...Juliana and her consort. Prince Bernhard, were so divided on the princess' care that they were considering divorce. But the Queen banished the healer, the furor subsided, and, acting on the advice of physicians, the royal couple decided on a new approach. Marijke. who is blind in one eye and has only partial vision in the other, had been sheltered from normal children's activities, and a helping hand stood by in case she fell. The new approach: let her fall. "The idea," one official explained, "was that she would learn and keep from falling the next time...
...twelve, when he took up sentry duty at a Jewish pioneer settlement to guard against marauding Arabs, Moshe Dayan has been a fighting man. He went to jail in 1939 for fighting in the Jewish underground against the British; two years later he lost his left eye fighting for the British against the Vichy French in Syria. In the Palestine war of 1948-49, Colonel Dayan's motorized Israeli units captured Lydda and Ramie, cleared the Negev desert. In 1953 Dayan became chief of staff of Israel's armed forces, plotted the brilliant blitzkrieg in which Israel...
...chances are that only people with very good eyesight, who live in favorable places, will ever see the Explorer with the naked eye. It is too small. In any case, says Dr. Fred Whipple, head of the Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory at Cambridge, it will only be visible while its elliptical orbit is carrying it over the U.S. at low altitude. When the high part of the orbit has shifted over the U.S. the satellite will be too faint to be seen without instruments...