Word: moment
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...them will he hurt more? Strategists for both parties would dearly like to know, though at the moment Nixon's lead appears so commanding that even a large Wallace vote may not affect the outcome. Certainly Nixon could count on most of the Southern states if Wallace had sat this year out. Certainly Humphrey could depend on union support in big industrial states if Wallace were not in the race. "Originally," says Al Cella, Humphrey's chairman in Massachusetts, "the assessment was that Wallace would not cause much harm because this is a 'Democratic' state. That view has changed. Humphrey...
...fact, nothing else for George but politics and the pursuit of power. Food has no interest for him: he will eat anything, so long as it is smothered in ketchup. He is never without a cigar, but he cannot say what brand he is smoking at any given moment. He does not drink: alcohol, he says, "wastes your physical and mental energy." His dress is nondescript: always a white shirt and a faintly iridescent black suit. He has no hobbies and no interest in material possessions (he claims assets of $77,000). Aboard his campaign plane, he spends most...
...thought unique, a moment rare...
...fire on the same launch pad 21 months before. Any more serious trouble would all but wipe out U S hopes of landing men on the moon before the end of 1969. Thus, as the towering Saturn IB rocket lifted ponderously off the pad after a heart-stopping moment of hesitation, U.S. hopes rose with it. At week's end, the eleven-day mission of Apollo 7 was proceeding as near to perfection as space officials had dared hope...
Such problems seemed minor indeed, and they did not materially change the sentiment voiced several hours after liftoff by the chief of the Apollo lunar-landing program, Lieut. General Samuel Phillips: "It is a pleasure to announce that Apollo 7 has, up to this moment, conducted a perfect mission-absolutely perfect. Bigger events are coming soon...