Word: idealize
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...name Democrat, or at least a big name, for the ambassadorship to the United Nations. The post is not technically of Cabinet rank, but since the Eisenhower Administration it has had a quasi-Cabinet cachet. The fact that it also has very little real power makes it an ideal place in which to put an erstwhile opponent. Nixon offered it first to Hubert Humphrey, who soon said no. Next Nelson Rockefeller got a hint that the job might be his. Not interested. Nixon then approached Sargent Shriver, who was interested but hesitated about taking the post after talking to some...
...when he named his Cabinet, Nixon ignored the need for symbolic reassurance to other alienated groups, especially the blacks. Instead he chose twelve reflections of his own purely Republican image. With one exception -- Princeton-educated Secretary of Labor George Shultz -- the Cabinet appointees fit the bourgeois ideal of the self-made man who struggled from the family farm or through the carpentry shop to prominence in law, business, or Midwestern universities...
...famous Polaroid "Big Swinger"--one of many of the Coop's famous brand name cameras. The Ideal Christmas Gift...
...exchange of ideas was the purpose, however, the nature of the conference format was less than ideal. The topic of the four day talks was no less than "the United States: its Problems, Image and Impact in the World." The discussion allotted one day to the internal problems of the U.S., one day to the character of the post-industrial society (Daniel Bell's phrase for a coming age of plenty and leisure), one day to the problems of U.S. foreign policy, and one day to the cultural future of the world. For obvious reasons, much of the scheduled exchange...
...easily they can be recognized as landmarks. They will plot their position for navigational fixes that will be useful for lunar-landing crews on later missions. On the seventh revolution, they will be able to survey a prime LM landing site at a time when illumination is ideal for observation: the sun will be 6.6° above the horizon, casting the long shadows that best bring out distinctive surface features. During lunar orbit, and on both the outgoing and return legs of the mission, the astronauts will shoot television pictures of the moon and the earth and transmit them back...