Word: safes
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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When Byron L. Ramsing returns this summer to Martha's Vineyard, he is in for a rude surprise. His Chilmark house, which used to be a safe 200 ft. from the cliffs overlooking the sea, is now only 80 ft. away, and the broad stone steps that were once in his backyard are now on the beach below. On the New Jersey shore, the sea has slowly devoured 50 square blocks of the town of Cape May Point, and St. Peter's by the Sea Episcopal Church, a frame structure which has already been moved three times...
...black mass of community sex. Their Puritan gods have retreated to unawesome, half-deserted churches, where beaten clergymen, sizing up the businessman congregations, croak about an improbable Christ who "offers us present security, four-and-a-half percent compounded every quarter." The Biblical woman accused of adultery would be safe in Tarbox; here no stones are thrown, only envious glances. With no heat left in the Protestant American crucible, the comfortable couples of Tarbox have reached out for another kind of warmth. Updike is forthright about his purpose. "There's a lot of dry talk around about love...
...Russians' docking maneuver. The U.S. has carried out ten manned rendezvous in space since Gemini 6 and 7 first got together in December 1965, and the U.S. has all the guidance and control equipment necessary for automatic docking Soviet style. More significant, say NASA scientists, would be the safe return to earth of Luna 14 from its orbit around the moon. Such an accomplishment would open the way to a manned circumlunar flight, which would place the U.S.S.R. ahead of the U.S. in at least one heat of the moon race...
There is sharp disagreement among Harvard's urbanologists on this last point. The final report had a strong impact, because the composition of the Commission made it look "safe" "Establishment people, businessmen, a police chief, Republicans," one Harvard commentator described the Commissioners...
...field events look safe for the Crimson, although Jim Coleman will need a great performance to upset Princeton's Weisinger in the high jump. Schoonover and Bog Galliers in the broad jump are probably too strong for the Tigers. And the muscular quartet of Wilson, Benka, Ajootian, and Champi insures Harvard domination of the weight events...