Word: outerness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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That period is over-as proved by Astronauts James A. McDivitt and Edward H. White II in their Gemini 4 flight, which ended successfully last week. Glenn and his Project Mercury colleagues showed that man can get into outer space and get safely back to earth. McDivitt and White showed that man can endure in space, that by his own skills he can cope with mechanical failure with little more danger (although sensing the same frustrations) than the ordinary Sunday-afternoon motorist. The historian of the future may well look back on the flight of Gemini 4 as the time...
Erikson: Inner space. Outer space...
From Vienna's stately Hofburg Palace, where the Congress of Vienna met to realign Europe 150 years ago, five Prime Ministers and two other representatives of Europe's Outer Seven last week called for a meeting with ministers of the Common Market. They wanted to discuss "strengthening cooperation" and "coordinating policies" of the two blocs. Explained the man who had convened the Seven, Britain's Harold Wilson: "We are in our citadel, they are in theirs. There is no suggestion we should come out of ours waving a white flag. All we suggest is that we both...
Deepening Division. What worried Wilson concerns political leaders and businessmen throughout Europe: the deepening division between the Outer Seven (Britain, Sweden, Norway,Denmark, Portugal, Austria, Switzerland) and the Inner Six (France, West Germany, Belgium, Luxembourg, Italy, The Netherlands). On Jan. 1, 1967, the European Free Trade Association's final internal tariff reductions go into effect, to be followed six months afterward by those of the Common Market, and the worry is that trade patterns will become so set within the blocs that attempts to join them will be increasingly fruitless...
Died. Neil Perrins, 49, sixth-generation head of saucemaking Lea & Perrins, whose 1837 formula for Worcestershire Sauce was brought from India by the third Baron Sandys and is still mixed behind locked doors; aboard his yacht in Lewis Island, Outer Hebrides...