Word: majority
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...matter what the Russians do, the U.S. astronauts should be on their way moonward on or soon after Dec. 21. Colonel Frank Borman and Major William Anders, both Air Force officers, and Navy Captain James Lovell are already at Cape Kennedy, spending 16 hours a day in preparing for every detail of a complex mission that has been planned and plotted to the last second. They spend 20 hours a week in simulators, training their minds and hands to react almost automatically to every conceivable contingency...
Ironically, this year's growth in world trade, the underpinning of global prosperity, has increased the strains on the world's monetary system. Among the countries whose exports have risen fastest are Germany, Italy and Japan, which already have substantial balance of payments surpluses. If the major deficit countries, the U.S. and Britain, actually succeed in curtailing imports and expanding exports, the world's main source of reserves to finance trade will shrink. Under today's monetary system, with nations free to pursue conflicting policies, the world can only look forward to one crisis after another...
...argued that their road would provide vital services for farmers and merchants in lonely West Texas. They argued that the line would show profits in only five years by hauling grain, sugar beets, iron ore, oil, castor beans, peaches, potatoes and cotton to Odessa and Seagraves for transshipment to major markets...
Gale is a former chief of British troops in Palestine after World War II, and later served as a Deputy Supreme Commander of NATO. He contends that the major biblical battles were not haphazard confrontations of wandering primitives but meticulously planned affairs. Abraham's victory over the Elamites-achieved by a surprise attack at night from two directions-"showed an appreciation of military tactics as applicable today as it was 4,000 years...
...IACF, he said, did not invite enough writers, philosophers, and artists; and he predicted that the major problem confronting the U.S. and the world was finding a place for artistic and human values in an increasingly scientific society...