Word: neil
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...growing feeling that the President is a man who bends under pressure. Many were confirmed in this view when Everett Dirksen and other Senate conservatives defeated the appointment of Dr. John Knowles as HEW's Assistant Secretary for Health and Scientific Affairs. Reports TIME'S Congressional Correspondent Neil MacNeil: "Individual Democrats like Wilbur Mills, chairman of the House Ways and Means Committee, are moving into the vortex where the decisions are made...
...vehicles that will take Astronauts Neil Armstrong, Edwin Aldrin and Michael Collins on their epic journey have been aptly named. The lunar module that will land on the moon's surface has been christened Eagle because, Armstrong said, it is "representative of the flight and the nation's hope." The command module that will carry the astronauts back to earth has been dubbed Columbia, a close approximation of Columbiad, the name that Jules Verne gave to his lunar craft in his 1865 novel, From the Earth to the Moon. Prophetically, Verne launched Columbiad from a site in Florida...
Command Pilot Neil Armstrong, 38, could have missed his destiny as the result of half a dozen close shaves. He crashed his Panther jet behind enemy lines in Korea, but escaped a day later. As a civilian test pilot in 1962, he plummeted uncontrollably toward earth when the rocket engine in his X-15 failed to start, but it caught on just in time. As commander of Gemini 8 in 1966, he had to abort the scheduled three-day flight after ten hours when a short circuit threw the spacecraft's thrusters out of control. Last summer...
...team, they are remarkably free from quarrels, but they are not close friends. They waste few words on the job, generally talking to each other in technological jargon. Once in a while, Mike Collins cracks a joke. Once in a longer while, Neil Armstrong flashes a fleeting smile. After work, they go their separate ways. It may be true, Aldrin admits, that they have all been somewhat dehumanized by what he calls "the treadmill" of the space program...
...begin preparing articles of impeachment. With the agreement of House leaders, he and William McCulloch, the ranking Republican on the committee, talked with Mitchell. Though no one would say what Mitchell disclosed, his evidence was apparently convincing. "We got a vast amount of information," Celler told TIME Correspondent Neil MacNeil. "The Attorney General unfolded the whole story. It clinched the matter. It necessitated that the Judiciary Committee take some action unless Fortas resigned...