Word: mightly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Unless we blow our chance, the landing of Americans on the moon might signal more than the dawning of a new era in just a scientific sense. This great day has united the human spirit and merged past dreams with present actuality...
...Humanity is faced with three major problems. No. 1 is how to control the burgeoning population of our species. When we solve that, we may have a chance to lick No. 2-the eradication of hunger. Once that is accomplished, there is a possibility we might move on to No. 3-elimination...
...totally out of character for Mary Jo (see box, overleaf). Says Esther Newberg: "Mary Jo was not a stranger or a pickup. She was like a member of the family." On the other hand, says a longtime Kennedy watcher, "one can also sense that Kennedy, jovial, relaxed, perhaps high, might have said: 'Come on, Mary Jo, and let's have a look at the ocean...
...condition, there is some doubt as to how much credibility this part of his story carries. When the car was brought to the surface the next morning, a purse belonging to Rosemary Keough, Edward Kennedy's secretary, was found. This led to all kinds of speculation that Miss Keough might have been in the car along with Mary Jo. In fact, she had used the car earlier in the day to pick up a radio for the party and had forgotten the pocketbook in the automobile...
Questioned by TIME, three experts said, however, that Kennedy's behavior was not unusual for a person who had suffered such an experience. By simple definition, shock causes a person to dissociate himself temporarily from threatening circumstances. Subconsciously seeking the protective company of those he knew, Kennedy might thus have passed up nearby houses that could have offered help for the more certain, if more distant safety of his friends. "No one knows what his own breaking point is," says Dr. Max Sadove, professor at the University of Illinois Medical School. "It is different at different times for different people...