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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...possible dangers of lunar organisms and helped influence NASA to tighten its quarantine procedures. During Apollo 10, Correspondents Lee and Neff questioned NASA's announcement that ground controllers had tracked the lunar module to a point 9.4 miles above the moon's surface in its lowest pass. The definitive figure should have come from the LM's radar, which must accurately gauge the spacecraft's distance from the moon. Digging further, Lee and Neff found that the lunar module had indeed seen things differently, and reported correctly that the spacecraft entered an orbit with a pericynthion...
...WORLD), there was almost complete silence from the enemy, and American intelligence reported that three North Vietnamese regiments, or about 7,500 men, had been pulled back across the Demilitarized Zone into the North. At a news conference, Secretary of State William Rogers said that "we have had the lowest level of combat activity in Viet Nam for a long time, possibly the whole war." Since the severity of enemy activity has been one of Washington's stated criteria for reducing U.S. forces, Rogers' remarks might be the prelude to an announcement of a second American troop cutback...
...past, by the ruling classes. Neither extreme scenario, of course, is likely to be chosen-especially not the latter. The Nixon Administration's options are too limited by other crises abroad and at home. At $605 million, Nixon's aid request for Latin America is the lowest submitted by a U.S. President in a decade, and Congress in its present mood is sure...
...both subsidy programs. Builders of housing which will rent at full market levels must understand, while the City recognizes their right to produce middle-income or luxury housing and understands the desire of families with adequate incomes to live in Cambridge, that such housing must clearly have the lowest priority in terms of public funds, energy or involvement. This is not because one group of residents is less important than the other. It is simply because they need less help, and have a better chance of having their needs met in the market. All builders or owners of private housing...
...made investors highly nervous about the future. On the New York Stock Exchange, the Dow Jones industrial average fell four days out of five last week. Altogether, it declined 30 points, to 895. In four weeks, the average has fallen 72 points, or 7%, and is now at its lowest level since last August. All the signals from Wall Street and Washington say that more strain, sacrifice and hard decisions lie ahead for the economy...