Word: gaming
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Numbers Game...
...President was the soul of middle America when he greeted the astronauts. Peering through the glass window of the quarantine van, he cried: "Gee, you look great!" He inquired whether they knew the results of the All-Star game. He chatted on and on, with somewhat feeble witticisms about asking the astronauts' wives for a date (coyly revealing that he really meant a state dinner). While there was a certain unpretentious charm to it all, it was also an awkward performance, and its triviality was strongly at odds with the solemnity of what had been accomplished. To describe...
...transport to Houston, then trundled on the flatbed of a diesel truck to the Space Center. There the astronauts were transferred to the $15 million Lunar Receiving Laboratory (LRL) that was built especially for men returning from the moon. Its provisions for recreation include a lounge for cards, a game room with pool table and exercising equipment, and a film library (Goodbye, Columbus, Romeo and Juliet). But until their quarantine ends, the astronauts can speak to their wives only by telephone or through glass partitions...
Communist Gains. Now, however, the game is no longer being played by the old rules. This year, the Communists have so successfully carried their annual offensive into the rainy season that Souvanna Phouma last week asked the French government to help "put a stop" to what he described as "invasion" by North Viet Nam. In Washington, the U.S. announced that it, too, was perturbed over recent Communist gains...
...does not pay to jest with a Russian -at least not with Defense Minister Andrei A. Grechko. One of the highlights laid on for Hubert H. Humphrey's current 13-day tour of the Soviet Union was a wild-boar hunt, for which the old game-bird hunter quite freely admitted that he was unprepared by either instinct or experience. As Humphrey told it, he jokingly brought up the subject with Grechko in Moscow six years ago. "I was just pulling his leg," says H.H.H., but Grechko took him at his word. So off he went to the Defense...