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When he left Washington, the President practically picked the executive branch bare. Aboard Air Force One with him on the 11-hr., 4,946-mi. hop to Honolulu were Secretary of State Dean Rusk, Defense Secretary Robert S. McNamara and Chairman of the Joint Chiefs General Earle Wheeler. A surprise passenger was 17-year-old Kathy Westmoreland, the general's oldest daughter and a student at Washington's National Cathedral School. En route separately were Agriculture Secretary Orville Freeman, Health, Education and Welfare Secretary John Gardner, former Chairman of the Joint Chiefs Maxwell Taylor...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: Making the Decisions | 2/18/1966 | See Source »

...hr, news conference in Mos cow, top Soviet scientists disclosed that Luna 9's instrumented, picture-taking payload stood only 2 ft. high and weighed a mere 220 Ibs. The remaining bulk of the 3,428-lb. craft that the Russians fired into space consisted large ly of fuel and the retrorockets that slowed Luna 9's final descent. In addition, the payload was detached from its rocket engines just before impact and hurled to one side, well away from the area that was disturbed by the fiery blasts of the descending retrorockets...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Space: The Inhospitable Moon | 2/18/1966 | See Source »

...congressional demands, L.B.J. was most irked by Fulbright's suggestion that Administration officials "consult with the committee before they decide to resume bombing." Johnson regarded that as a challenge that could not go unanswered. Just before the 21-hr. White House briefing ended, he picked up a copy of Never Call Retreat, the last volume of Bruce Catton's Civil War trilogy, and read a passage describing how a group of Senators demanded that Lincoln reshape his Cabinet to their specifications to assure greater harmony. "Mr. Lincoln had no intention of doing this," the President drawled...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The War: The String Runs Out | 2/4/1966 | See Source »

...proceeded without a hitch. Precisely on schedule, the reliable Atlas booster roared up from Cape Kennedy and out over the Atlantic carrying an unmanned Agena rocket as its payload. Astronauts Walter Schirra and Tom Stafford watched the action on TV as they waited for their own scheduled liftoff, 1 hr. 41 min. later, in Gemini 6, the capsule in which they would make the first attempt at rendezvous and linkup in space. Then, six minutes later, the Agena target vehicle mysteriously disintegrated. The whole mission was scrubbed, and from Houston to the Cape, U.S. spacemen began to search their telemetered...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Space: The Glitch & the Gemini | 11/5/1965 | See Source »

...point, a juror gave the accused a broad wink. It was a good tipoff. After 1 hr. 29 min. of deliberation, the jury reached its verdict: "Not guilty." Not that anyone had expected differently in "bloody Lowndes," as Negroes call the county. Nonetheless, Attorney General Flowers, a courageous, outspoken antisegregationist whose own life was threatened during the trial, denounced the verdict as an outrage. Said he: "Now those who feel they have a license to kill, maim and destroy have been issued that license...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Trials: A License to Kill | 10/8/1965 | See Source »

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