Word: robert
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...Died. Robert W. Goodman, 54, father of Andrew Goodman, one of three civil rights workers slain in Mississippi in 1964, whose dignity in the days following his son's murder helped inspire the moderate groundswell of opinion that rallied to the civil rights movement; of a stroke; in Manhattan. Said Goodman at the time: "Our grief, though personal, belongs to the nation. The values our son expressed in his simple action of going to Mississippi are still the bonds that bind this nation together...
MYSTERY AND MANNERS by Flannery O'Connor. Occasional prose, selected and edited by Sally and Robert Fitzgerald. 237 pages. Farrar, Straus & G/Voux...
...battle rose to the surface during the flight of Apollo 9, specifically when Commander Jim McDivitt asked to speak to the ground in private to report that Rusty Schweikart was vomiting. When Robert Gilruth, director of the Manned Spacecraft Center, granted permission, reporters protested. As the battle continued, Haney pondered-and then took the position that the right of the press and the public to know was more important than the astronauts' desire for privacy...
...reason for the decline has been the Pentagon's increased emphasis on competition among defense suppliers. That-and the current controversy -stems from a buying system, introduced when Robert McNamara was Defense Secretary, called "total package procurement." Under "TPP," contractors must estimate total costs of a complex project years in advance, and they are supposed to keep quite close to that fixed-price target. TPP was designed to end the egregious overruns that had been fairly common under the older system of contracting for each step as it came along. This had encouraged contractors to make unrealistically low bids...
...times, the jog down the byways of the romantic era seemed not worth the effort. With utter seriousness, Butler's dancers performed the ballet from Meyerbeer's 1831 opera Robert le Diable, a spooky medieval tale that pits a young knight against the seductive forces of the Devil; about the best that can be said for it is that the knight ultimately triumphs. In an attempt to convey the lacquered elegance of a 19th century Paris salon, chamber music soloists performed in a drawing-room setting. They were surrounded on stage by formally attired Indianapolis socialites seated...