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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Senator Eugene McCarthy. No one else has done so much to change the course of history: the withdrawal of President Johnson from politics; Bobby Kennedy's plunge into the presidential race and ensuing events; a bombing halt in Viet Nam and peace talks; a President-elect named Richard M. Nixon...
...already changed his mind. The Apollo 8 moon mission, he feels, should have an air of unmatched excitement. Washington Correspondent David Lee and Houston Stringer James Schefter, who also reported for this week's cover, agree. The close race with the Russians, the pride of trailblazing, the somberness of three men risking their lives-all combine to give this next moonbound flight a very special aura...
...bridge-building efforts to the Soviet Union. Nixon has indicated that he is wary of sitting down with the Russians with that episode so fresh in memory. But unless he gets down to serious talks on arms control, the danger exists that the two nations will embark on a race to build anti-ballistic-missile systems that will siphon off tens of billions of dollars from urgently needed domestic programs in both countries. Moreover, Nixon insisted during the campaign that the U.S. faces a "security gap" and must not permit the Soviets to achieve anything approaching nuclear parity...
Robert Klein swings from race to race, from shy intellectual to swaggering blusterer, with the ease of a metronome. It is Charlotte Rae, looking and sounding like a Valkyrie telescoped into a dwarf, who provides the evening's best performance as a black woman who gets bleached in Morning. She shakes off her origins and becomes a haughty, fake-elegant white woman; irrepressibly, she grabs a microphone and begins warbling a song, White Like Me. But before she has finished, all the skin has been stripped away, and in a manic Mahalia Jackson finish she delivers a jolt...
...sheer drama of man's first flight to the moon-the spectacle, the perils and the uncertainty-has been heightened by the prospects of a close race between the U.S. and Russia. The U.S. has announced that on Dec. 21 it hopes to launch three astronauts aboard Apollo 8. According to the projected schedule, they will circle the moon ten times, starting on Christmas Eve, then return to the earth, where they will land 21 days later. Russian plans, as usual, are cloaked in secrecy. But many Western experts who have pieced together clues from Moscow rumors, recent Soviet...