Word: prays
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...explore and then constructively exploit new frontiers. A major portion of this country's future, not for the next few years but for centuries to come, must lie in space. Granted there's a war on, which pressures our economy, but this will pass. I only pray that when my generation takes over we will have the opportunity of maintaining a free space, as today's generation has had the challenge of maintaining a free world...
...tough enough to do what's right, and man enough to pray...
...Pray as he might, George Romney last week found the wind nipping off Mount Washington at ten below zero, the waves of voter popularity running 3-to-l in favor of Richard Nixon, and the need to do right as urgent as the lyrics of his new campaign anthem. Whether coursing New Hampshire's icy highways in his cream-colored Dodge camper truck or standing without earmuffs before factory gates, he seemed tough enough for the weather-if not for the competition-in the first primary campaign of the 1968 election...
Short and amiably unprepossessing, the man who sat in the great episcopal throne of St. Patrick's Cathedral in 1939 was hardly the image of a bishop, let alone the archbishop of the vast Archdiocese of New York. "I shall pray as if everything depended upon God," he said when he assumed his office. "I shall work as if everything depended on me." And so seriously did he take his vow - so firmly did he place his mark on American Catholicism - that when he died of a stroke in Manhattan last week, Francis Cardinal Spellman, 78, was without question...
...difference between the two opposing approaches to Black Power: "Where the builders differ from the burners is that we want to win victories within the framework of the system." Martin Luther King Jr., who began by counseling his people to "love your enemies, bless them that curse you, and pray for them that despitefully use you," embraces the new Negro ethic in its most reasonable application: "Black Power is a call to black people to amass the political and economic strength to achieve their legitimate goals. No one can deny that the Negro is in dire need of this kind...