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Word: headedness (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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Apollo 8's unblemished success and its safe return prompted Air Force Lieut. General Samuel Phillips, the Apollo program director, to announce that Apollo 9 had been scheduled for a Feb. 28 launch date. On that flight, a three-man team headed by Astronaut James Mc-Divitt will orbit...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: THE VOYAGE: POETRY AND PERFECTION | 1/3/1969 | See Source »

Had the SPS engine failed to ignite, or burned too briefly during the attempt to place Apollo into lunar orbit, the spacecraft would have looped around the back of the moon and headed directly back toward earth. If the engine had cut off during one crucial 30-second interval of...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: The Little Engine that Could--and Did | 1/3/1969 | See Source »

The discussion proved inconclusive. Despite the conciliatory efforts of the Indian commissioner, there was no Polish-Canadian agreement. After a lunch of roast beef, the ICC team headed back for Pnompenh and a cocktail party.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Southeast Asia: How Not to Supervise a Peace | 12/27/1968 | See Source »

The crowd goes wild. The band breaks into a jubilant, drum-thumping march. The loser, a shave-headed Negro, is led from the ring, while speaking ruefully with a reporter. The winner, a white man, is paraded about on the shoulders of the cheering crowd. One gloved hand mechanically extended...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Boxing: The Pottawatomie Plowboy | 12/27/1968 | See Source »

Does TV cause riots? Are children growing insensitive to brutality because of crime programs? So went the questions put last week by the National Commission on the Causes and Prevention of Violence, headed by Milton S. Eisenhower. The commission, in effect, wondered whether TV is the mirror or the molder...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Industry: Fighting Violence | 12/27/1968 | See Source »

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