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...Grander Goals. Gemini 5 drifted along with one of the two fuel cells shut down to control the water buildup. Asked Cooper: "You think we might make it, huh?" "Looks like it," replied Carnarvon tracking station in Australia. Kraft broke in: "We're sure...
...committee of 40, appointed to administer the unexpected riches, sponsors an annual Gibran festival and maintains a Gibran museum that charges admission and turns a modest profit. Plans for a grander museum, for a hospital, for a literary contest in his memory, have had to wait while the committee settles quarrels among its own membership and disputes in court with lawyers representing Marianna Gibran, the poet's sister, who lives in Boston and was not remembered in his will...
...power steering that are optional on less expensive cars. More carefully assembled and inspected than other cars, they offer larger engines, better suspension and insulation, more comfortable seats. Every Lincoln Continental, for example, gets a twelve-mile road test before being delivered to the dealer. Accessories are also grander. For an extra $495, a Cadillac buyer can get a combination heating-and-air-conditioning system that automatically maintains the temperature of his choice throughout the year; for another $141, his car will be upholstered in genuine leather. Continental offers individually adjustable contour seats and a powered trunk lid that...
Ninety-five years ago, when the U.S. added the 15th Amendment to the Constitution, President Ulysses S. Grant called it "a measure of grander importance than any other one act of the kind, from the foundation of our free Government to the present day." The 15th did indeed have a grand ring: it promised that "the right of citizens of the United States to vote shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or by any state on account of race, color or previous condition of servitude...
...West's unresolved problems, there was an undercurrent of confidence. Britain's Gordon Walker pointed out that the divided Communists "are in much worse shape. The split is more fundamental." Lodge suggested that the other Atlantic partners, despite De Gaulle, set about creating a grander alliance, in the hope that France would come in later. "There is today no organized grouping, on a worldwide scale, of the free peoples," Lodge lamented. "The great tragedy of our age is the inability of free men to create one well-rounded and essentially spiritual view of life by harnessing toward common...