Word: lande
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...resulting treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo not only deprived Mexico of over 40% of its land but also made many thousands of Mexicans involuntarily Americans overnight. In many areas of the Southwest, the Mexican American may date his family's residency over a century, if not longer...
...vehicles that will take Astronauts Neil Armstrong, Edwin Aldrin and Michael Collins on their epic journey have been aptly named. The lunar module that will land on the moon's surface has been christened Eagle because, Armstrong said, it is "representative of the flight and the nation's hope." The command module that will carry the astronauts back to earth has been dubbed Columbia, a close approximation of Columbiad, the name that Jules Verne gave to his lunar craft in his 1865 novel, From the Earth to the Moon. Prophetically, Verne launched Columbiad from a site in Florida...
Ideally, the nationality of the first men to land on an extraterrestrial body should be of negligible importance. But the fact is that it will be seen by many as a specifically American victory in a hard-fought race whose outcome has not always been so clear. After Sputnik, when Soviet space firsts and U.S. space failures were occurring with disheartening regularity, a Soviet official boasted: "The space programs of the United States and the Soviet Union have demonstrated for all the world to see that socialism is a better launching pad than capitalism...
...that if and when oil is found, the landowners who lease acreage to the wildcatters make heavy demands. Once they were satisfied with a one-eighth share of profits; now they insist on bonuses or a larger slice of the earnings. The oil companies, which once farmed out much land to independents, now have much less to distribute because their attention has turned increasingly to offshore properties, Alaska and foreign lands...
...found no substitute for straight-out autobiography. No novel by James Baldwin can match the fervid personal essays in his The Fire Next Time. What black fiction can begin to compare with The Autobiography of Malcolm X or even Claude Brown's somewhat overrated Manchild in the Promised Land? The fire a black autobiographer kindles burns the reader. The fire a black novelist sets has a way of burning himself -blowing his cool, singeing his prose style and casting clouds of smoke over his intentions...