Word: objection
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Streaking through space, out of the gravitational pull of man's world, past the moon, toward an orbit around the sun last week went the most breathtaking new object of the century. It was the first man-made planet-a Russian rocket. "On January 2, 1959," Moscow radio proclaimed, "a cosmic rocket was launched toward the moon. The launching again demonstrates to the world the outstanding achievements of Soviet science and technology." The rocket, Moscow added, was a multi-stage rig that weighed 3,245 lbs., with a 796.5-lb. payload of instruments (see SCIENCE) and pennants bearing...
...sand, heaped with fetishes and food offerings, bottles of beer and the rotgut alcohol known as cachaça. Around the altars, while drums pounded faster and faster, men, women and children danced and shouted, stomped and babbled. Yemanjá, goddess of the sea, was the special object of honor; poor families from Rio's slums and evening-clad nightclub patrons waded into the water to toss in offerings-liquor, perfume, jewelry, and thousands of bouquets of white chrysanthemums...
...third contention, that one candidate's name was badly mispelled, is also true, but the candidate in question did not object seriously to this error when a new election was offered by the Council...
...that there are more things one can do with money than save it, and this is a sometime good thing. The Administration's efforts to cut down on government expenses are certainly laudable, but in the terms of the sports world, Ike should have learned by now that the object is not to kill the ball, but to meet it squarely...
Personal Attack. The rebels do not object to a balanced budget, but they believe that the President is doing permanent damage to the G.O.P. by putting too much stress on balance and too little on a dynamic program. Rankling them is the belief that just such inflexible conservatism swamped the Republicans in November, will certainly defeat the party in 1960 unless a new national G.O.P. image is forged...