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...moon itself seemed nearer and definitely accessible. Man's technical talents had brought a lunar visit down out of the realm of science fiction. The Apollo program, with its planned lunar landing before the decade runs out, no longer seemed a fanciful goal for overambitious scientists. From the scorched launching pads of Cape Kennedy to the lonely tracking ships in the Pacific, Gemini had pumped new life into U.S. space work. And a public grown almost blasé about news of men in orbit waited for the astronauts' return with singular pride...
...science, the bitter claims to social justice in old nations and new. Catholic theology, dominated by a textbook scholasticism, appeared to have stopped in the 13th century. Except by a few pio neer ecumenists, Protestants were unhesitatingly regarded as heretics. When not openly despised as the devil's realm, the modern world was at least suspect...
...publication of prurient pornography than by pink politics. Both activities are fully protected, the two dissenters argued in Roth. While they recognize state power to regulate public morals, they would draw the line when state prohibitions go beyond overt behavior, such as public nudity, and enter the realm of ideas. In their view, obscenity lies in that realm and is thus protected by the national Constitution...
...large cast to turn their characters into caricatures. Mr. Pugh, the hen-pecked husband endlessly dreaming of poisoning his wife; Mrs. Ogmore-Pritchard, who won't let boarders into her boarding house because they might breathe on the chairs -- exaggerated performances kept these and other figures forever outside the realm of credibility. Even an accomplished actress like Ellery Akers shrieked, slouched, and grimaced her way through the evening...
Such veneration was shrewdly earned. Having negotiated Kuwait's independence from Britain in 1961, Abdullah (with British help), resisted Iraqi threats to occupy his realm, then turned enmity to friendship with a loan. He created a Parliament to share his power and refused to veto its actions even when he disapproved of them. With $700 million a year in oil income, Kuwait became one of the world's major financial powers; its millions on deposit in London are a principal prop for the hard-pressed British pound. While his people enjoyed free education, medical care and telephone service...