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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Troublesome Tether. In a press conference at the Space Center the next day, McDivitt and White matter-of-factly gave 75 newsmen a rundown of their flight. Seated at a table covered with gold-colored cloth, McDivitt said he had trouble trying to rendezvous with the booster that had hurled the capsule into orbit. It was, he said, tumbling too much. Mission Director Kraft, noting that when McDivitt thought the booster was 400 ft. off, it was really 2,000 ft. away, said: "It's pretty hard to tell distances up there by eyeballing it." Next August...
...children attend unsegregated schools, they are often last in line for the cities' already desperately overcrowded public housing, barred from private apartments and boardinghouses by "No Colored" signs, and forced to pay rates of up to 10% on mortgages for private houses. The dark million cluster in overcrowded, rundown Victorian neighborhoods in and around London, Birmingham, Manchester, Liverpool, Sheffield and Bradford, where they sometimes make up 20% or 30% of the population. In London districts marked by proper English names such as Blenheim Crescent or Henry Dickens Court, the air reeks with curry and saris crowd the pavements, while...
...Duties. Such extravagances have used up most of Cambodia's foreign exchange, driven living costs to an alltime high, and even scared away a Chinese team of economists invited from Peking to sort out Snookie's tangled accounts. Pnompenh-once a pleasant, easygoing capital-has become increasingly rundown. This fact recently led Snookie to broadcast a wild tirade of threats that he would personally fire everyone in the capital, from street sweepers to policemen, if the city did not shape up. Typically, no one was fired and Pnompenh remains as threadbare as ever. As government corruption accelerates, justice...
...Kibitzers Allowed. Of the three, Johnson remains most impressed-almost awed-by McNamara. Often the President phones him before 7 a.m. for a rundown on Viet Nam. Less decisive than McNamara, Rusk is nevertheless valuable to Johnson not only as a loyal conduit for his policies but also as a skillful operator on Capitol Hill and a man of quiet reason. Johnson repays Rusk's loyalty. When critics asked why he did not reach into the lower echelons of the State Department for advice as Jack Kennedy often did, Johnson replied, "Hell, I go to Dean Rusk...
...part of a lung removed, came back to bat .300 in both 1961 and 1962. Red worked as a coach for Keane last year, and he obviously picked up a few pointers. He announced a midnight curfew, took to the field himself to demonstrate how to elude a rundown...