Word: regrets
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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With deep regret, NASA Project Mercury Boss Robert Gilruth announced that he was clipping the wings of one of his astronauts. Because of an "erratic heartbeat," Air Force Captain Donald ("Deke") Slayton, 38, was no longer eligible for a solo ride into space. The doughty Deke will be reassigned to "operational and planning" duties on the ground, though he might take a ride on a rocket as second or third man in future Gemini and Apollo shots...
...regret to note that TIME classifies President Kennedy as unqualified to deal with the present economic hurricane both from a standpoint of training and temperament. President John Kennedy was no more responsible for the shake-out than a Swiss yodeler is for bringing down an avalanche. Economists knew it was there. They were simply afraid they might start it moving...
...departed from the old tradition of unlimited acceptances with great regret," Crooks said Monday. "It was always felt that students should make their own decision about the benefits available from extra summer study...
...leaving the P-D (which was recently added to the official White House reading list, replacing the New York Herald, Tribune's for a better-paying job on Marshall Field Jr.'s Chicago Sun-Times (circ. 551,529). "Well," said Pulitzer levelly, after expressing polite regret, "maybe we'll buy the stuff...
...SCHWARTZ REPLIES: I regret the petulant language to which Mr. Rowsey refers, but I do not think its excision weakens my case. I argued that, for various reasons, the Trade Bill is unlikely to have any appreciable effect on this country's unemployment problem: and that to pretend it will is in effect to deny assistance to those whose needs deserve the government's first attention...