Word: men
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Will someone please tell me which doddering, bumbling generation, what archaic educational system, and whose capitalistic tax dollars managed to put those men up among the stars...
...face of America's many social, political and economic ills, I can feel nothing but pride and gratitude toward a nation that will enable my children's children to abandon earthly strife in search of better worlds. I am only sorry that the generation of men and women who are making interplanetary travel a reality will themselves be confined to the boundaries of Mother Earth, thanks to Father Time...
...first to nominate your Men of the Year, 1969: Neil Armstrong, Buzz Aldrin, Michael Collins...
That gift is the ability to muster massive resources of men, materials and expertise to convert abstract scientific theory into awesome, tangible technological achievement...
Greatest Since Creation. It is only an accident of history that Richard Nixon occupied the White House when the U.S. first landed men on the moon, but the coincidence seems apt. No less than Neil Armstrong, he is the smalltown boy who rose to fame, the upright citizen, the doer somehow left a bit unsophisticated despite his success and prominence. Nixon could scarcely contain his exuberance as he waited on the flag bridge of the carrier Hornet for the Pacific splashdown. Waving his arms, he exclaimed: "Oh, boy! Oh, boy!" As the Apollo command module bobbed in the sea, Nixon...