Word: lowe
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Lear: "A good man's fortune may grow out at heels." Whether Johnson was a good man to begin with is disputed by many of his critics, but his tribulations were sufficient to deter any man of lesser fortitude or obstinacy. Week by week, his popularity-plummeted, reaching a low of 38% in October, where once he had basked in the approval of 80% of the nation (at year's end, however, Gallup showed him up to 46%). Congress, only recently scorned as a "rubber stamp," turned around and began stomping...
...help more U.S. infants survive, Congress has authorized $35 million for maternity and infant care in fiscal 1968. And HEW hopes to set up and train a corps of physicians' assistants to provide more thorough care to mothers and infants in low-income areas...
...play, the defensive lineman reacts -and reacts fast, trying to beat his opponent to the block, catch him off-balance, squirt past him before he can plant himself. To confuse blockers, defenders will "stunt," or loop around each other; they may charge high to hurdle a block, or duck low to "submarine" under. They clutch at shoulder pads and jerseys, trying to spin blockers aside and clear a path to the ballcarrier. They have, in fact, become so adept at slipping blocks that not even the punter, standing 15 yds. back of the line of scrimmage, is safe any more...
...hitch a ride aboard the spacecraft, in the bodies of the astronauts or in moon rocks that they will carry back. Such bugs, against which man has developed no immunity or medicines, could conceivably cause a catastrophic plague on earth. "We know that we're dealing with a low-probability risk and that no one really expects life to be found on the moon," says NASA's Dr. Walter W. Kemmerer Jr. "Yet the best way to preserve life is to freeze...
...Craig, a former Manhattan adman, unfolds the story in the you-are-here fashion of popular history. Yet his documentation and use of original sources reflect first-rate scholarship. Among other topics, Craig traces the origins of the kamikaze suicide squadrons, General Curtis LeMay's plans for a low-altitude fire-bomb attack on Tokyo, and the success of Japanese intelligence forces in learning the details of the U.S. plan to invade the home islands...