Word: leveller
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...shift of national priorities away from space and Viet Nam to pressing domestic needs. Given the temper of Congress and the Nixon Administration, and the continuing costs of war, that shift is not likely to happen soon. The very success of Apollo 11 is an augury that the level of space spending may not be cut. The liberals seem out of tune with the majority of middle Americans-at least for now. Middle America does not seem discontented with the present ordering of national values. It elected Richard Nixon and strongly backs the U.S. space program...
...Louisiana's bombastic Russell Long as assistant majority leader. He was a beneficiary, of course, of the grace of being a Kennedy. Without that, he would probably never have won his Senate seat in the first place, and he certainly would never have been considered, at his age and level of experience, a serious presidential contender. Yet he was well-liked in the Senate, was deferential to his elders; he played by the rules and did his homework. If he was far less abrasive?and far less disliked?than Bobby, he also seemed to lack his brother's genuine heat...
THEY were joyful. They were uninhibited. They were grandly, gloriously drunk. They were puffing cigars, hugging girls, waving miniature American flags, and pushing each other -fully clothed-into pools. The kissing never stopped. The noise level was astronomical. And so it should have been: the NASA communities of Houston, Huntsville and Cocoa Beach had sent three men to the moon and back. The revelry at splashdown time was fittingly feverish...
...Create a top-level Board of Environmental Quality Advisers in the executive branch - 25 or 30 leading experts who would develop new policies, criticize existing programs and advise the President directly...
Across Ethnic Lines. The need for such procedures is being emphasized by a growing body of biochemical knowledge. "As a patient's health changes, or as other drugs are used," says Kalman, "the blood level of an important drug may change." One example is the use of barbiturates in combination with digitalis. If a patient is on digitoxin, one of the digitalis products, and then uses barbiturates for a while, his heart-medicine dosage should be checked, and possibly adjusted, twice. Barbiturates speed up the metabolism of digitalis-type drugs, which are critical within a narrow range. Even...