Word: gulf
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...After that, each man spent scores of hours in a simulated capsule at Houston's Manned Spacecraft Center They practiced the chilling procedures for aborting a flight in case of a mishap in a centrifuge at Johnsville, Pa. Together, they bobbed inside a Gemini capsule shell on the Gulf of Mexico off Galveston, rehearsing the act of opening the hatch, jumping out and inflating a life raft to await rescuers...
...President pointed out that even though Negroes are winning the legal battle for equality, Negro poverty remains worse than white poverty. He talked about the psychological scars left on young Negroes, the devastating breakdown in Negro family life, the lack of education. He cited figures to show that the gulf between whites and Negroes is actually widening rather than closing, despite the legal breakthrough...
Johnson announced that as the first step in erasing the gulf he would call a White House conference of scholars, Negro leaders and Government officials; their mission may be to find ways of fulfilling economic, educational and social rights. This mission, he said, is "the glorious opportunity of this generation to end the one huge wrong of the American nation-and in so doing to find America for ourselves with the same immense thrill of discovery which gripped those who first began to realize that here, at last, was a home for freedom...
...Mize, 77, federal judge for the Southern District of Mississippi since 1937, a deep-dyed segregationist who signed the 1962 order admitting Negro Student James Meredith to Ole Miss only after the U.S. Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals demanded it; after collapsing on the bench a month ago; in Gulf port, Miss...
...Trail. The SEC first got on the trail of the insiders more than a year ago, when it spotted an unusual price pattern in Texas Gulf stock. If it had not been for the difference in tone between the April 12 press release dampening speculation and the April 16 one confirming a discovery, however, the SEC might well have never pursued the case. After months of secret investigations, a six-man team under SEC Attorney Herbert Pollack nosed around for more than half a year interviewing brokers and the defendants, combing the testimony of Texas Gulf officials before a Canadian...