Word: fatefulness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...world's first nuclear-powered merchantman cost the Government $82 million to build and up to $2,700,000 a year in subsidies to keep afloat. She sailed in May on a transpacific voyage that may well be her last, if the Senate-which scheduled hearings on her fate this week-decides that the ship, handsome as she is, is not worth her keep...
...Carl Davidson, puts it, "to dig in for the long haul, to become full-time, radical, sustained, relevant." Marches, says a Chicago SDSer, "are just not enough. They won't stop this war. More important, they won't stop the military industrial complex, the powerful institutions that decide the fate of people in this country .... We must do more than marching...
Lyndon Johnson seemed keenly aware of that danger as well. Toasting Wilson during a White House dinner, he quoted G. K. Chesterton as saying: "I do not believe in a fate which strikes men however they act. But I do believe in a fate which strikes men unless they act." Added the President: "Tonight, together, we are ready to support our common purposes, our mutual hopes for peace-with deeds...
...entirely from official records. Though 25,000 Cleveland families are eligible for public housing, only 7,478 units are available, and a scant 2,500 more are planned for the near future. Much of the fault lies with lackadaisical Democratic Mayor Ralph Locher, who took over Cleveland's fate when Anthony Celebrezze was called to Washington as Secretary of Health, Education and Welfare in 1962, and whose five-year-old administration has monumentally botched an ambitious slum-clearance program that held real hope of improving the lives of the inner-city poor...
Tying world records seems to be Jim Hines's fate-so far. When he was a senior at McClymonds High School in Oakland, Calif. Hines tied Jesse Owens' 31-year-old schoolboy mark of 9.4 sec. for 100 yds. That earned him a $1,200-a-year scholarship to Texas Southern. But when Hines first turned out for track at T.S.U., Coach Stan Wright was appalled: "Jim's starts were awful. He didn't concentrate...