Word: laying
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Grissom, 40, Lieut. Colonel Edward White, 36, and Lieut. Commander Rog- er Chaffee, 31, lay dead in the charred cockpit of a vehicle that was built to hit the moon 239,000 miles away, but never got closer than the tip of a Saturn rocket, 218 ft. above Launching Pad 34 at Cape Kennedy...
Democratic Granddaddy. Behind the maneuvering lay the fact that the G.O.P.'s presidential nomination has become a prize worth fighting for. By contrast with the gloomy 1965 meeting in Chicago that followed the Goldwater rout, the 1967 national committee gathering was turned on by the nerve-end feeling-right or wrong-that Lyndon Johnson can be beaten. The credit, in large part, goes to plain-talking, publicity-shy Ray Bliss, who took over as national G.O.P. chairman two years ago, rebuilt the demoralized party as a credible political force among rural Southerners, big-city Northerners and Negroes...
When it comes to civic action, though, the Marines insist that the "gimme and giveaway" days are gone for good. Says Colonel Holmgrain: "We will not lay so much as the first brick or provide the first pound of cement for a school or clinic until Saigon first produces a teacher or a medical technician." Moreover, the villagers themselves must participate. If the villagers put three or four months of their own sweat into a project, the Marines figure, they will take better care of it and fight any Viet Cong attempts to take over or destroy...
...Congregation of Holy Cross, which operates the University of Notre Dame, reorganized the school's governing board; under the new setup the six priests who currently make up the board will be balanced with six laymen. At the same time, the Holy Cross Fathers approved another mixed lay-clerical board for the University of Portland, which they also control. Cleveland's John Carroll University is working along the same lines, and New York's Fordham University, which has been experimentally allowing its 36-member lay board of advisers to vote on school matters along with its eight...
...Call to Disarm. Behind the drop in interest rates both in the U.S. and Britain lay an event of seemingly superficial but potentially vast consequence. Last year interest escalation by major Western powers took on the character of an international rate war, much to the damage of prosperity in Britain and West Germany. Hoping for what he called "a measure of disarmament in interest rates," British Chancellor of the Exchequer James Callaghan met for a Saturday-Sunday session at Chequers, the Buckinghamshire country residence of British Prime Ministers, with U.S. Treasury Secretary Henry Fowler and the finance chiefs of Germany...