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...America. This elfin-looking man, usually dressed in a red-plaid shirt, ventured out into the unfamiliar with tape recorder in hand and spoke with people whom he liked to call the etceteras of the world. In his presence, they mattered. He knew they had something to say--about race, about class, about work, about hope, about community. About America...
...planning to send a Zond spacecraft around the moon before the end of the year. It was not certain that the Zond would carry a man, but if it did, it would be one more black eye to the U.S. - which had lately caught up in the space race with the Soviets - in a year that had been full of them. So that summer, NASA told Borman, Lovell and Anders to cowboy up. Their original Earth orbit flight plan would be changed to a lunar orbit...
...illusion that he enjoyed the incessant flow of alcohol as much as his classmates did: "The colored glass enabled me to fill and empty, in appearance, many times, while in reality I only poured out and tasted a few drops." (See pictures of the Oxford and Cambridge University Boat Race...
Vilsack mounted his own campaign for the Democratic presidential nomination before exiting the race in early...
...still unclear whether the Democrats have enough votes to pass the bill, even with a majority of 58 - or 59 if they win the last undecided Senate race in Minnesota. Democrats will need 60 votes to overcome what is sure to be a GOP filibuster of the measure and only one Republican supported it in a previous vote, Pennsylvania's Arlen Specter. Nor is it certain that all of the incoming Democratic senators - many of them more moderate and business friendly, such as Virginia's Mark Warner, Tom and Mark Udall (cousins from New Mexico and Colorado) and Alaska...