Word: safe
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Long Shot. For all the meticulous planning, NASA acknowledges that Apollo 8 involves greater risks than any of the previous manned space flights. Not only will the spacecraft be as many as three days away from a safe landing (v. no more than three hours in earth-orbiting missions), but it will be entirely dependent on its own propulsion system to break out of lunar orbit. If that lone engine should falter, the astronauts would be stranded, circling the moon with absolutely no hope of rescue...
...abandon our earlier role of the enlightened, liberal audience. Each time the panel resumes, the absurdity of the very pretense of a "discussion of race relations" becomes more evident. All of the panel's proposed "rational" solutions--individual initiative, integration, compromise, separatism--collapse. Even the experts are not safe...
...football season is almost over now, and my place in the CRIMSON sports prognosticators' Hall of Fame is assured, so I feel safe in revealing how these predictions have been made each week...
...Republicans have hopes of capturing a Senate majority in 1970. Then 26 Democrats will stand for reelection, including a number who are undistinguished and vulnerable. Only seven Republican seats will be on the line, and most seem safe and solid. The G.O.P. needs only eight or nine more Senators to win 50% of the Senate seats ?and then any tie votes could be broken by Vice President Spiro Agnew...
...Denver physicians," Taylor notes. "The hospitals in small-and medium-sized towns are performing very few therapeutic abortions. This trend will probably continue for some time because of the anonymity that a large city provides." In no case did the new legal procedure take long enough to make a safe abortion impossible, and there were no maternal deaths...