Word: fastnesses
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Bayard Rustin interprets the Watts riots as signifying "a society where a Negro can show he is a man only by setting a fire"−all other channels supposedly being closed to him. A Charlotte Negro dentist argues that "when the white man says to me, 'Look how fast you have come in such a short time,' he is making a remark that is an offense to a Negro...
...with much to be encouraged about. In the past two weeks, the V.C. had suffered the most staggering casualty toll since they started the war: more than 2,100 dead, another 200 captured and an estimated 3,600 wounded. Moreover, Operation Starlight proved that by combining accurate intelligence reports, fast planning and careful selection of where and when to fight, the U.S. can more than hold its own in Viet...
...even Charlie Rentrop cannot keep up with the flood of news in today's big city. For all his versatility, Rentrop's kind of one-man coverage of city hall is fast disappearing. The Post & Times-Star now assigns additional reporters to cover city news, and papers elsewhere are enlarging their staffs to cope with increasing urban change: soaring population, urban sprawl, federal programs that touch all aspects of city life. "Before, you could just sit in the mayor's office and find out all you needed to know," says Wayne Whitt, the Nashville Tennessean...
...came within range of the Guaymas tracking station in Mexico, Astronaut Pete Conrad made a calm, almost routine report. The pressure, he said, was dropping in the fuel cells' oxygen supply. The gauge that normally should have read 800 to 900 Ibs. per sq. in. was dropping fast. Since the fuel cells were the main source of power for the spacecraft's communications, computer and environment control system, they were, in effect, the heart of the Gemini mission...
...ailing system. The fourth revolution was even quieter than the third. The astronauts were instructed: "If you have had a significant pressure rise, please turn your transmitter up and acknowledge." There was no acknowledgement. The pressure had leveled out at 71 Ibs. The sixth revolution was coming up fast, and a decision had to be made soon. If recovery were delayed even one revolution longer, Gemini would not be over a convenient landing area for another 18 hours...