Word: return
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Perhaps City Hall is deceptive. Perhaps behind those tall doors the same old politics goes on, the same old expediency and self-interest, the same old favors in return for patronage. But, one feels there might be a new spirit injected into the old game. After all, how many city halls have you been in which have their own art gallery...
...first discovery. Checking out a resident's complaint, Police Chief Harold Berrio found an abandoned Volkswagen parked in a lonely wooded area known locally as a lovers' lane. On the windshield was a handwritten note explaining that the driver had run out of gas and would return. A few days later, the Teletype clattered the story of the missing girls and gave the registration number of their car; it matched the number that Berrio had dutifully recorded. The car belonged to Patricia Walsh, but when Truro police went back to look for it, the VW was gone...
...Retreat. As a strong supporter of Acting Premier Yigal Allon and his plan to set up fortified villages along the frontiers of the occupied territories, adopted by the Cabinet early this year (TIME, Feb. 7), she recently stated: "It is inconceivable that there should be any return to the pre-June cease-fire lines. We can never agree to a redivision of Jerusalem. We cannot give up the Golan Heights. We can never agree to Gaza becoming a revolver aimed at us. We will not once more make the mistake of depending on the U.N. for our security...
Canceled Space Walk. Spider's return to Gumdrop was the highlight of the mission, which began last week after a three-day delay to allow the astronauts to recover from troublesome colds. Launched by a Saturn 5 rocket into a near-perfect orbit, Gumdrop, in flawless sequence, separated from the third-stage S-4B rocket, pivoted in space, hooked up with Spider and plucked it out of the nose of the orbiting S-4B. On the third day, Astronauts McDivitt and Schweickart got ready to enter Spider through the 47-in.-long, 32-in.-diameter connecting tunnel...
...Israel has had a divine promise," and "Israel reborn is a verification of the promise. We are God's stake in human history." The rebirth of Israel thus calls for "a renewal of trust in the Lord of history." To a cynical, disbelieving world, the Jews' own "return to the land" can revive hope for "the possibility of redemption...