Word: nations
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Even in the 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...
...possible, epitomize the solid, perhaps old-fashioned American virtues. So do the thousands who came to see them off at the Cape and those who celebrated their return with flags and patriotic bumper stickers -few love beads among them, fewer bell-bottom trousers and no disparaging words about the nation. The moon landing was a mind-stretching leap into the future and an accomplishment shared by all America and indeed by the world. But it was especially an accomplishment of "middle America...
...spite of presidential euphoria and middle-American fatigue with the nation's problems, the question remains: Can the U.S. apply its demonstrated technological virtuosity to help master its vexing difficulties at home? Emmanuel Mesthene, director of a Harvard research program on technology and society, believes that an important preface to that goal is already under way. "Our society," he argues, "is coming to a deliberate decision to understand and control technology to good social purpose." Perhaps, but major obstacles clearly remain. Going to the moon is easier-and far less costly-than rebuilding American cities and uplifting the disinherited...
...legal terms, the chief was almost certainly right. Politically and morally, he could scarcely have been farther from the truth. Speaking to the nation before a bookcase in his father's house in Hyannisport?his own house had insufficient electrical capacity for TV equipment?Kennedy sought not only to fill some of the gaping holes in his earlier story, but, in an appeal slightly reminiscent of Richard Nixon's famous Checkers speech in 1952,* to salvage his political future as well. The appearance did, in fact, answer a few of the questions, but left the most serious ones unanswered...
...Cubans are trying to do this in a number of ways. They involve the entire nation in the productive process by means of political speeches on the importance of production for Cuba and the voluntary labor program, to get people to understand the jobs of other workers and the lives they lead. Most People Participate In Voluntary Labor...