Word: seeing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Viet Nam also was very much on his mind. Even as he took off from Washington's Andrews Air Force Base, he was being informed of fresh Communist attacks and U.S. uncertainty over how the new offensive would affect the still desultory Paris peace talks (see THE WORLD...
...pounded guerrilla bases in Syria and Jordan. Fedayeen bombs exploded in Jerusalem and Lydda. Yet the two events that may affect the area's future more than the violence had to do with changes in leadership. In Israel, the sudden death by heart attack of Premier Levi Eshkol (see box following page) opened the possibility of a struggle for succession. In Syria, a forced change in government may help close ranks against Israel in the Arab world...
...turns out that one of G.W.'s intramural squads has christened itself "the Fulbrights"-complete with red shirts emblazoned with a white dove on the front-and J. William was there to cheer the boys on. After all, he reasoned, "If I got up at 5 a.m. to see the President leave, why shouldn't I show up here...
Spring Vegetation? Sophisticated as they are, Mariners 6 and 7 will at best be able to determine only the possibility of life on Mars. Their cameras, which can pick out features twelve times smaller than Mariner 4 could see, will nonetheless be unable to distinguish objects less than 900 ft. across. Says Robert Leighton, a California Institute of Technology physicist who is in charge of Mariner's TV experiments: "At the worst, we should be able to kill a lot of old legends about the dark lines being canals carrying water from polar ice caps to oases...
Perhaps slightly overconfident, the Yardlings were trailing, 89-81, with six minutes to go after a see-saw battle. Then, led by the outstanding play of high scorers Mat Bozek and Brain Newmark--with each netting 28 points--the freshmen moved to within six points of the leaders...