Word: helpe
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Chance & Confidence. For the next two years, the seven will alternate between cosmic-secret isolation and fishbowl visibility.*Operating from Langley Research Center at Hampton, Va., the Astronauts will work along with the engineers-as experimental test pilots always do. Each man will help design one component of the space capsule: communications system, propulsion, instrumentation, etc. To toughen up for the physical trials and psychological terrors of space, they will spend hours in low-pressure chambers, wind tunnels, human cocktail shakers; they will be jolted on supersonic rocket sleds, flown in balloons and supersonic aircraft and eventually test-rocketed...
...sees as his most potent rival for the nomination is Missouri's low-flying Stuart Symington (see below), who will probably fight shy of primaries and hope for a convention compromise. To whip a weakening Humphrey, say Kennedy strategists, would only help Symington by removing Humphrey as a potential smoke-filled-room rival...
...looking slightly green; something they had eaten aboard their train soon laid 100 of them low, sent 28 to hospitals. Ohio's Republican Congressman William Hanes Ayres of Akron was on hand at the depot with coffee, doughnuts, and a sign saying: SEE YOUR CONGRESSMAN FIRST. HE CAN HELP YOU MOST...
...clean to the bone by scavenger birds and beasts. Tibetan sons keep their fathers' skulls and use them as drinking cups out of filial piety. On stormy days, when blizzards smother the high mountain passes, lamas cut out paper horses and scatter them to the winds to carry help to any poor traveler foundering in the deep snow. Meeting a stranger, a Tibetan sticks out his tongue in friendly greeting...
...Chinese pushed toward Lhasa, the Tibetan National Assembly sent an urgent plea to the United Nations for help against the aggressors. It was rejected with the pious hope that China and Tibet would unite peacefully. The uncertain Tibetan government called on the State Oracle to decide what the Dalai Lama should do. He urged flight...