Word: lesses
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...seven had in common medium height (5 ft. 11 in. or less, to squeeze into the space capsule) and medium age (32 to 37-old enough to have the required experience in the air and engineering, young and fit enough to explore the unknown). Six sported crew cuts, four were their fathers' namesakes. Each was small-town-born, married, a father (one to four children), an active sportsman, a Protestant; each expressed an intimate love for the skies and an abiding faith in the heavens. Yet they were individualists...
...body responses will be measured on the earth below. Physicians will be hearing the sounds of his heart, the sounds of his breathing, watching the electrical activity of his heart and muscles and taking his temperature and blood pressure, all by remote control and radio link. He may feel less sure in his mind as to the state of his psychological being. The curious finger of fate has pointed him out to be hurled into space to make the supreme test as to whether man can function and survive space travel. He has been chosen as the one single sample...
Next, Old Guardsman Barry Goldwater, though he had been less than enthusiastic about having Good Ikeman Morton as national chairman, took the microphone to wish him well and urge him to steer the Republican Party to the right. As for the Democrats, said Goldwater, "there is no Democratic Party. There is a shell that has been crawled into by labor, led by that redhead from Detroit named Reuther. We've got to stop being nice to them. We've called them liberals. They aren't liberals they are radicals...
Good Old October. A.F.L.-C.I.O. President George Meany swung less wildly but he pulled no punches. He jeered at the Administration's balanced budget and "tight money" policy, turned defense expert to proclaim that the balanced budget is "weakening the national defense program." His "program for action to put America back to work": 1) new legislation to "cushion the shock" of unemployment and "safeguard purchasing power," 2) a vast, Government-sponsored building program, 3) "justified wage increases" and a shorter work week "to spread the available supply of jobs...
...know that." Said Mitchell: "I have enough faith in the basic health of the American economy to state that by October of this year there will be 67 million people at work, 3,000,000 more than there are today, and that unemployment will be 3,000,000 or less. And may I say to my friend George Meany: If this isn't so, George, when the October figures come out, on the steps of the Labor Department I will eat that hat you said I was talking through...