Word: rosee
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...late July, the trickle be came a torrent; since then, according to U.S. intelligence figures, 61 ships carrying Soviet arms and men have arrived in Cuba or are on the way. The Kennedy Administration said little about the Cuba buildup - until New York Republican Kenneth Keating rose on the Senate floor, outlined what he had heard about the Russian shipments, demanded that the Administration tell the U.S. what was going on. Others took up the cry, and under mounting pressure President Kennedy de cided to issue an official statement...
When grave national issues are involved, Everett Dirksen is not a partisan." In a flood of oratory, Republican after Republican rose to toss bouquets toward Dirksen. Vermont's George Aiken praised his fairness and courage. California's Thomas Kuchel his unselfishness and erudition...
Manned by three U.S. Navy reservists getting in some summer flight time, an unarmed snub-nosed 52F submarine tracker droned along over international waters one day last week some 15 miles off the Cuban coast. Suddenly, machine-gun fire rose from two small gunboats, apparently Cuban, cruising the blue Straits of Florida below. No hits were scored, but the incident produced a sharp protest from the White House and an equally sharp denial from Fidel Castro. The exchange climaxed a week of rapidly deteriorating relations between the U.S. and Communist Cuba...
Last week, on Cape Canaveral's Launch Pad No. 12, Mariner II also seemed doomed. The countdown was halted three times to allow technicians to examine malfunctions. When the spacecraft finally rose above its flaming tail and disappeared into the warm darkness, preliminary tracking data from Johannesburg indicated that Mariner might miss Venus by some 600,000 mile's-too large an error to be corrected by its mid-course steering motor...
...modern arts of research to dispel myths and muddy misconceptions. Alan Moorehead, an extraordinary journalist-turned-historian who examined the history of one of the river's sources in The White Nile, tells in his latest book what succeeds the great civilizations-Egyptian and Greek-that rose and fell with the Blue Nile as its annual floods gave life to the narrow green ribbon across the deserts and supported the great cities at the delta...