Word: going
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...which Nixon himself is likely to accept. Its principal advantage is that it does not require a dramatic increase in the space budget at a time when the nation is under pressure to meet serious social needs. Moreover, it will allow the President to defer a firm commitment to go to Mars until 1976, or the last year of what might be a second Nixon term, without hurting chances of making the 1986 target date...
...vehicles that take men to Mars will be used on many voyages. "When a vehicle returns from Mars to earth orbit," said NASA Administrator Thomas O. Paine, "it will be left in earth orbit. After refueling, resupply, and providing a new crew, the vehicle would be ready to go again-back to Mars, to Venus, or on a shuttle run to the moon...
...Southerner and a strict constructionist, the South Carolina jurist expected opposition in his fight for Senate confirmation. Liberals and civil rights activists are upset by his go-slow attitude on integration, and union leaders by what they consider his anti-labor stand. Roy Wilkins, in a statement for the Leadership Council on Civil Rights, asserted that Haynsworth's confirmation would "throw another log on the fires of racial tension." A.F.L.-C.I.O. President George Meany testified that he was "not fit to be an Associate Justice of the Supreme Court...
Haynsworth was ready to defend himself against all charges. He said that he agreed with Supreme Court rulings outlawing separate but equal education and upholding the right of indigent defendants to counsel. But he declined to go into detail on these issues on the grounds that his comments could hinder him if he should actually sit on such cases. He did, however, rebut the conflict-of-interest charge vehemently. Stuttering slightly, he not only denied any impropriety, but also held that since his company was not directly involved, he in fact had an obligation not to disqualify himself from...
...HAVE to remind you, ladies and gentlemen, that we get only one guess at this, that we cannot go back to the drawing board if we make a mistake." The speaker, at a White House briefing last week, was a top-level Administration aide. The subject was "Vietnamization," the effort to place ever-increasing responsibility for fighting the war in the hands of the Vietnamese...