Word: hearings
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Good to hear your voice," said Astronaut Lovell, breaking the long silence after Apollo had emerged from behind the moon. Wild cheering filled the control room. Says Flight Director Glynn Lunney: "It certainly wasn't a faint reaction. There was quite a bit of racket. I'm sure it can be described as one of the happiest Christmas Eves just about anyone there had seen...
...hours. Although the astronauts had been inoculated against the Hong Kong flu, Borman soon became ill with another variety that caused him to vomit and suffer diarrhea. Borman elected not to discuss his illness over the public communications channel. As a result, NASA's medical staff did not hear about his problem until Houston technicians finally played the tape...
...hardly mollified. The Secretary of Defense, he declared, had "shown a gift of saying the wrong thing at the wrong time." At a reception in his honor, Ky went farther. "Do you ever hear the Russians or the Chinese criticizing North Viet Nam?" he fumed. "My problem is I have to fight not only my enemies but also my so-called friends. Those who talk are not especially my friends. They sometimes talk too much. They think that by insulting me they will make me change my mind. They make a mistake. I would like them to shut...
...hear artists tell it, art these days is almost anything that strikes the eye. Framed empty space, neon bulbs, rooms with booming loudspeakers, a deliberately ill-tuned radio set-all qualify. But one kind of art that has been around quite a while has been all but ignored-animated film. Though now sophisticated in its techniques and clearly unlimited in its subject range, animation as an art form has been largely confined to exercises in television commercials, kiddie cartoons, and a few arty shorts that are of the kind that are only noticed at film festivals...
...Stuart Hughes, chairman of the History department, appointed the faculty committee in November to hear student grievances. "We were lucky," a committee spokesman said. "Hughes appointed a committee which he felt would listen to us fairly and openly. It might have been otherwise...