Word: opener
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...case, the U.S. could not have claimed sovereignty over the moon, even if it had been so inclined. A treaty drafted in 1966, and since signed by both Washington and Moscow, asserts that the moon is terra nullius, or no-man's-land, open to exploration and use by all nations...
...recovery site in the Pacific, a frogman dressed in an all-enveloping biological insulation garment (BIG) will open the command-module hatch, toss in three similar garments and quickly close it again. Inside the Apollo cabin, the astronauts will don and seal their BIGs before reopening the hatch and stepping into a pool of antiseptic at the bottom of an adjacent rubber raft. Almost immediately, the frogman will again close the hatch, spray antiseptic around its edges, and then give the astronauts themselves a thorough spraying...
...A.M.A. supports a team of lobbyists charged with keeping medicine in private hands. Certainly, doctors, like all special-interest groups, have a right to be represented in the capital. However, the A.M.A.'s largely negative goals, often achieved by using high-pressure tactics, have left the association open to censure...
...Party. In the 1967 state elections, for example, the party lost control of four key states-Uttar Pradesh, Bihar, West Bengal and the Punjab. In last February's midterm elections in those states, Congress failed to regain its old supremacy. Last week the party developed new troubles: an open power struggle in the leadership...
Embassy Snooping. It was the high court that brought the shadowy issue of electronic surveillance into the open in the first place. Last March, in the case of Alderman v. U.S., the court held that a defendant may demand to see the transcripts of any illegal bugs or wiretaps of his conversations, or those of people on his premises. The 5-to-3 decision forced the Government to yield not only its Hoffa records, but also those of ex-Heavyweight Champion Cassiu Clay's conversations with King and Elijah Muhammad.* Yet the Government had a far more important reason...