Word: helpful
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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DISCOVERY 67 (ABC, 11:30 a.m.-noon). ABC Science Editor Jules Bergman and Bill Owen discuss "Our Next Step in Outer Space"-the Apollo moon mission-with the help of models and animated drawings...
...crowded 30-minute press conference, Reagan handled himself with assurance and wit, gave his views on subjects ranging from Viet Nam ("full resources" should be used to support U.S. troops there) to whether Michigan's Governor George Romney should take a position on the war ("It sure would help him at press conferences"). Items...
...temple is built, its location must be carefully considered in relation to mountain or water spirits. Children sometimes dress in striped tiger clothing to ward off evil influences. It is unlucky to meet a bald-headed man on the way to a mah-jongg party and dangerous to help a drowning man, because evil spirits might drag the rescuer down too. The aggregate of thousands of such superstitions is not transcendental or spiritual. It is not an attempt to commune with the unseen forces but to constrain them. It is all part of what Amaury de Riencourt calls "magic realism...
...first time since the popular front of 1936 France's leftist parties formed a limited, tactical alliance to help them gain seats in the Assembly. The two major groups -- the Federation of the Left under Francois Mitterand (the man who nearly defeated de Gaulle in the presidential elections of 1965) and the Communists -- agreed to present a single candidate in as many districts as possible so that the leftist vote would not be split...
...labor leaders also disagree vehemently over the role of the American labor movement in international affairs. Reuther believes that unions ought to help bridge the gap between nations, while Meany refuses even to talk to Communist labor groups. Last year the International Labor Organization (an agency of the U.N.) elected Leon Chain, a Pole, president. The American delegation headed by Randy Faupl, a close friend of Meany's, walked out of the meeting. Reuther sought to condemn the walk-out at the next executive council meeting but was overruled by a near unanimous vote. A source reports that at this...