Word: ills
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...working in the military space program, I presumed to suggest, in an unclassified thesis on file with the Air University Library at Maxwell Air Force Base, Montgomery, Ala., that in terms of personal safety and national economy, the U.S. could ill afford the luxury of two independent and jealously self-preoccupied national organizations for the development of national space programs, one military (the Air Force Systems Command) and one civilian (NASA), with the gigantic national industrial complex shifting as best it could between them. There should be a single program, with military and civilian correlatives and applications. This thesis...
After a series of ill-starred ventures, the Lincoln Center company has put together a creditable production, and it is luckiest of all in its British star, Anthony Quayle. His Galileo leaps at the tantalizing bait of new knowledge, delivers his lines with a purity that makes diction a diadem, and knows bitterly the heart's blind wounds for which the mind has no tourniquet...
ROBERT SCOTT AND THE RACE FOR THE SOUTH POLE (ABC, 8:30-9:30 p.m.). Filmed on location in Antarctica, a re-creation of Captain Robert Falcon Scott's epic and ill-fated journey to the South Pole...
...issue was the fate of Christopher Sorensen, 6, a product of artificial insemination to which his mother's sterile husband, Steelworker Folmer J. Sorensen, had agreed. After a 1964 divorce, the boy lived with his mother, who bitterly refused any financial aid from Sorensen. When Mrs. Sorensen became ill and applied for welfare funds last year...
...center, rather than on the periphery, of social issues that has aroused the interest, the concern and the fear. There is a feeling in the air that a new force may have entered into social history; that youth may play a more effective political role for good or for ill than ever before...