Word: raines
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...defenses. The main shield of the U.S. remains the thermonuclear deterrent-the strategic missiles and bombers meant to discourage Nikita Khrushchev. But Kennedy holds that the Army must also be ready to fight with gunpowder or with tactical nuclear weapons anywhere from the plains of Europe to the rain forests of Asia. "We intend to have a wider choice than humiliation or all-out nuclear action," he said in his July report to the nation...
...surface of Venus given at the Harvard Observatory, Sagan noted that four theories of the nature of the planet had been held within the last 50 years. The earliest concluded that Venus was a planet shrouded with clouds of water vapor, hiding a surface that was nothing but swampy rain forest...
...Crimson worked out in the rain yesterday, but for the first time Coach Bruce Munro permitted a few rays of cautious optimism to brighten the gloom. "You've improved a hundred-fold in the last two days." Munro told the highly touted team which until this week had looked disappointing in practice. "Now you're beginning to play soccer...
...revolutionary theory, but there are few who still deride it rudely. Many are reserving judgment until the particles collected by the U-2s have been positively analyzed and identified as space dust. Then will come the additional job of proving that the space dust can and does cause rain. But Bowen and a growing army of believers are sure that this final proof is not far ahead...
...Flying Eagle. The Holy Week of which Aragon writes is the chaotic, rain-drenched and rumor-filled week between Palm Sunday and Easter in 1815. Napoleon, having just escaped from Elba, was marching up to Paris to begin the historic Hundred Days, which were to end with Waterloo. And as Napoleon approached-"the Eagle flying from steeple to steeple," rallying to his standard the regiments sent against him-King Louis XVIII, fat and fatuous, was fleeing north toward the Belgian border amid a confusion of loyal musketeers and grenadiers...