Word: recordings
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Most of Nixon's successes and failures might have been predicted from his past record and his campaign statements. What could not have been anticipated is his erratic performance as an administrator. Few men know Washington better than Nixon, and few place a higher premium on order. The President retains his image of methodical competence. Yet the Administration appears in many ways to be maladroit and insensitive. More and more, comments TIME'S Washington Bureau Chief Hugh Sidey, "there is an aura of ineptitude growing here that could spread to the nation. There is a growing feeling...
...members of Apollo 11's crew are seasoned, imperturbable astronauts. Armstrong, known as an inscrutable loner, flew Gemini 8 to the first successful space docking. Aldrin, a hard-driving perfectionist, set the record for space walking (5 hr., 30 min.) during the four-day flight of Gemini 12 in 1966. Collins, the most relaxed and outgoing of the three, helped steer Gemini 10 through complicated rendezvous and docking maneuvers...
...carry address books. The pigs will record every name in them. Do write on your arm some number where a lawyer or a friend can always be reached in case you're busted. Don't carry dope or accept it from anybody-likewise, don't take rocks or packages from anyone. If you do something you could be busted for, split-you don't know...
...only at the discretion of the court-and sometimes they are denied that right when minor drug charges are involved. Release helps the accused apply for court-appointed counsel. But it also calls on five of its own solicitors who have compiled an impressive-if not universally welcomed-record. New Society, an influential sociological magazine, reports that not one first offender represented by Release solicitors on charges of possessing marijuana has so far been sent to prison...
...year ago were thinking about the future mostly in terms of the source of their next meal. Only last November, Zager, 25, and Evans, 26, were working as a duo, trying their best to please the regular customers in a Lincoln motel lounge. With a borrowed $500 they recorded 2525, which has a simple and schmaltzy tune and a chugging, nostalgic instrumental backup right out of the early 1950s. They released the record on their own label (Truth), gave a copy to some friendly disk jockeys in Lincoln, then watched it take off as a regional hit (11,000 copies...