Word: journey
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...clause of the nuclear nonproliferation treaty expresses what is still barely even a dream. For more than 20 years, the threat of nuclear annihilation has hung over the world, and the nightmare remains undiminished. Quoting a Chinese proverb, John Kennedy said of the 1963 test-ban treaty: "A journey of a thousand miles must begin with a single step." Last week the U.S. Senate took another step, voting 83-15 to approve NPT-a pact that would forbid all signatory nations that are not already nuclear powers from using atomic energy for anything but peaceful purposes. Like the earlier...
...novel concerning a. Nazi and a Jew would seem to offer about as much chance for originality these days as a cowboy-and-Indian movie. Nonetheless, the Austrian-born English author of Czar and Journey of a Man has managed to produce an extraordinary book about that very relationship. Thomas Wiseman's study of two Austrians-Stefan Kazakh, a half-Jew, and Konrad Wirthof, a wholehearted Nazi-is a brilliant tour de force of rare psychological depth and complexity...
...something you love or hate, it is a part of you, and as you would fight to stay alive, so you would fight to protect you land from dismemberment. Only such strong feelings can serve to explain how Zapata and his followers could have made the terrible, ruinous journey they made. Their revolution demanded of them a self-sacrifice which few of us, with our theories and our brains and our shifting loyalties, could make...
High above the atmosphere, Mariner unfolded its four rectangular solar panels and wheeled around until sensors locked onto the sun and the star Canopus, stabilizing the 850-lb. craft in space. Then, right on course, the complex space traveler settled down for a five-month, 226 million-mile journey that is scheduled to take it to within 2,000 miles of Mars on July...
...earth, Alley found, the spacecraft's speed was the predominant factor; time slowed up and the astronauts actually aged more slowly than mere earthlings. But beyond that distance, as the effects of earth's gravity lessened, Apollo's time began running fast. Over the entire journey, Alley says, Apollo's time passed more quickly than earth time by the 300 microseconds...