Word: panels
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...space scientists strongly urged "grand tours" of the outer planets in the mid-1970s. At that time, Jupiter, Saturn, Neptune, Uranus and Pluto will be so aligned that a spacecraft could sweep past at least three of them in a single, multibillion-mile journey. This rare planetary configuration, the panel noted, will not occur again for another 179 years...
...over the $24 billion tab for Apollo. Last week, as head of a task force on future U.S. space objectives, Vice President Spiro Agnew said the nation should aim for a manned Martian landing by the end of the century. But Agnew conceded that the other members of the panel might be more cautious about a manned Martian expedition...
...scheduled an impressive array of names. ABC commissioned Duke Ellington to write and perform a piece of music, Moon Maiden. The network also 1) lined up Steve Allen to sit down at a piano and discourse on the moon and romance in popular music, 2) called together a panel of scientists and science-fiction writers including Rod Serling, Isaac Asimov, Frederik Pohl and John Pierce, 3) planned a four-part essay on movie scifi, featuring Flash Gordon and the Clay People, plus clips from Destination Moon and 2001: A Space Odyssey and 4) taped James Dickey reading...
Also under severe criticism from the experts, though not yet the targets for FDA regulatory action, are medicated mouthwashes. The panel on drugs used in dentistry found that mouthwashes are generally about as effective as a solution of common salt or even plain water. It suggested that the makers be required to drop claims that their products control breath odor, relieve throat pain or reduce the number of bacteria in the mouth. The washes should be allowed on the market, the panel said, only if they are advertised as "pleasantly flavored solutions...
Sales v. Safety. Panel after panel found that both manufacturers' claims for drugs and the doses prescribed by doctors are based largely on unquestioned assumptions. This is true not only of relatively new products, such as the cortisone group of hormones, but even of digitalis, the oldest and most effective medicine for the most common forms of heart disease. In most cases, the FDA will proceed slowly and cautiously, figuring that it may be wiser to leave a product on the market until its efficacy is definitely disproved by the panel...