Word: helpful
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...from the capsule, filling the white room. A workman sprinted across the catwalk leading to the craft, tried desperately to loosen the hatch cover. He was driven back by the intense heat and smoke, but half a dozen other technicians, some wearing face masks and asbestos gloves, raced to help. One or two would try to wrench open the hatch, then fall back from the scorching heat while others struggled with it. Six minutes after the cry of alarm, the hatch sprang open. A blast of hot air shot out, followed by suffocating clouds of smoke...
...because he hopes to find clues to when and how the earth came to be. The biologist wants to know if there are any vestiges of existence there that might solve the riddle of what life really is. The astronomer hopes that a definitive look at the moon could help unlock the secret of how the solar system was formed. The astronaut wants to go because it is there...
...course, Congress will help decide whether that pleasant dream comes true. The administrative budget, despite its size, actually gives economizers a small target because so much of it involves defense needs and other unavoidable expenses. Although the long knives flashed in anticipation last week, large-scale cuts seemed unlikely. The Presi- dent himself had pulled back on many Great Society programs, asked $3 billion less overall than previous congressional authorization schedules had envisioned. But his proposal for a 6% surcharge on personal and corporate income taxes, amounting to $4 billion plus, faces serious challenge. If it fails, the real deficit...
...battles, of death in high places and kangaroo courts, of confusion and chaos from one end of mainland China to the other. But one thing is increasingly clear: the situation in China is deteriorating rapidly, as evidenced last week by Mao's desperate call on the army for help...
Rock V Roll. When they are not patrolling, the Marines help the villagers and try to get to know them better. In Phuoc Trach, a fishing village on the populous coastal plain below Danang, CAC protection allowed Navy Seabees to build a bridge connecting the village with the main road to the provincial capital. In the past, villagers had to sail up a Viet Cong-controlled river to reach their market-and pay plenty of fish in tribute along the way. The Phuoc Trach Marines have even taught their Vietnamese friends how to dance to rock 'n' roll...