Word: looped
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Zond 5's successful loop around the moon and its safe recovery in the Indian Ocean provided fair warning last week that Russia is well and truly back in the race for the moon. Many scientists believe that the flight was merely a prelude to the circling of the moon by a Soviet cosmonaut, a mission that could be carried out within the next few months. But U.S. space officials are still hopeful that American astronauts can make a lunar landing before the Russians set foot on the moon...
...white room in Manhattan's Architectural League. Nevertheless, there was no denying that the scene had an eerie visual unity; joining the quartet was a strip of red silk acetate, 24 ft. long and 12 in. wide. It had been sewed into a square with a loop at each corner, and each loop fitted onto the head of a participant. Title of the work: Four...
There was reason enough to be sanguine. Beginning his push in Chicago, where the Democratic cause had been staggered by police clubs the week before, Nixon received a warm reception from huge noontime crowds in the Loop. During his 45-minute ride through the heart of the city, confetti poured from office buildings. Signs screamed VIVA NIXON and DUMP HUMP-NIXON'S THE ONE. People jumped through police lines to shake the candidate's hand. While the excitement hardly matched a Robert Kennedy happening, Nixon, like Kennedy before him, suffered a scratched wrist and lost a cuff link...
...Pictures, Please. Downtown in the Loop, cops were stationed on every corner and in the middle of every block. Federal agents were assigned to the roof, main corridors, kitchen and service areas of the Conrad Hilton Hotel, headquarters of the convention, where three candidates-Vice President Hum phrey, Eugene McCarthy and Georgia's Lester Maddox-and three of the del egations were staying. Other agents were on round-the-clock duty outside the candidates' suites, checking passengers debarking from elevators. The Sheraton-Blackstone across the street, where Senator George McGovern was billeted, got equal protection. Press photographers were...
...Frankfurter," McCloskey said, "during most of his tenure went against the main trends of Court opinion. Douglas has been disinclined to spend time producing decisions that close legal loop-holes, and Black, for reasons obscure to me, has chosen a method of opinion writing that is assertive rather than explanatory...