Word: groundful
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Thundering from Behind. As he carried that case to the country during his brief campaign for the presidency, McGovern lost ground at home. His Republican opponent, hulking (6ft. 4-in.) ex-Governor Archie Gubbrud, was thundering up from behind...
Tough Act. With the session drawing to a close, the 90th Congress could be faulted for having broken little fresh ground in the areas of social and ban reform. Nonetheless the 90th did have a tough act to follow. The 89th had all but swept the legislative agenda clean-its successor, with 50 more Republicans in its ranks as a result of the 1966 elections, was billed as the "stop, look and listen" Congress. Despite its determination to consolidate past gains, the 90th could boast some triumphs of its own. The pluses...
Blackout. Following the shot unerringly for more than a hundred miles, a remarkable Air Force camera called IGOR (for Intercept Ground Optical Recorder) brought the shutdown and separation of the first stage, and the ignition of the second stage into full view of the TV audience. Seconds later viewers also saw the dramatic jettisoning of the Apollo escape tower, which arced high above the spacecraft before plummeting back toward earth. Finally, about 10½ min. after launch, out of IGOR's range, Apollo 7, still attached to the second-stage Saturn 4B rocket, glided into an orbit 140 miles...
...mission. Astronaut Eisele, 38, an Air Force major also making his first space mission, reported radio interference that sounded like a commercial. "I', getting a hot tip on some hostpital-insurance plan from some guy," he said. "Maybe they're trying to tell you something," a ground controller cracked...
Matter of Taste. At Esquire, Sorel introduced another series known as "The Spokesman." One such was Charles de Gaulle, dressed as a Puritan and carrying a Bible and a blunderbuss; the French President had opposed state payments for contraceptives on the ground that they would be used for pleasure rather than health. Last May, in the Atlantic, Sorel unleashed "Sorel's Unfamiliar Quotations," in which bulbous characters are linked with punnish captions. Under a sullen, bleary Frank Sinatra: "Mia culpa...