Word: heard
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...moon is rapidly becoming a mark of where one stands on political and social issues. If Apollo was a victory for U.S. engineering genius, it could not disguise American failures at home. That fact has already become a thundering cliche, and one that promises to be heard for a long time. If we can put men on the moon, why can't we build adequate housing? Or feed all citizens adequately? Or end social and economic injustices? (Or even make the airlines run on time?) One answer, at least, is obvious: unlike the moon landing, these earthbound problems involve...
...after Arena had himself made an unsuccessful attempt to recover the body, the chief was informed that Kennedy was waiting for him back at Edgartown. By this time Arena knew that it was Kennedy's car and was attempting to have his office locate the Senator. When Arena heard that Kennedy preferred to talk to him in Edgartown rather than on Chappaquiddick, said Farrar, Arena said: "Teddy wants me to go back to the station. I've got to go." Oddly, Kennedy had already gone from Edgartown to Chappaquiddick not long before word of his presence in the area reached...
McCarthy's announcement left his seat open to Hubert Humphrey, who feels a little underemployed in academe and is eager to get back into politics. Humphrey heard the political news while stopping at Dubrovnik, Yugoslavia, on his way back from his visit to Russia. McCarthy's decision not to run, said Hubert, "opens many possibilities." No one doubts that the former Vice President will have an easy time returning to the Senate from Minnesota...
...years, Congress has heard and uttered pieties about the environment...
...Catholic progressives look on his measured criticism as a vital necessity to church reform. At 65, Suenens considers himself too old to be Pope, but he has clearly developed a constituency and career of his own as leader of a loyal opposition within the church. "We haven't heard the last from him," says one of his few close friends in the Vatican. "He is only getting started...