Word: seemly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Apollo 8's pioneering voyage around the moon, she sent copy by Teletype for 20 hours without letup, all through Christmas Eve until noon on Christmas Day. The bureau's Apollo 11 file to Jaroff, Kriss, and Researchers Sydnor Vanderschmidt and Gail Lowman made even that effort seem pale by comparison...
...seem so to the majority of Americans, and certainly not to the majority of people abroad. By satellite television, the voyage of Apollo 11 was seen and heard round the world by an audience estimated at 528 million by ABC-TV, which handled pool coverage. Many other nations sought a sense of sharing and involvement in the great adventure. Italians pointed proudly to Astronaut Collins' Roman birth. Frenchmen recalled that Jules Verne had charted the voyage more than 100 years ago. Germans noted that it was Wernher von Braun who had labored a quarter-century to perfect a rocket...
Obviously it takes brave men to climb into that capsule and undergo the immense risks that lie between the earth and the moon and the earth again. Yet, to thoughtful skeptics, the superorganized voyage of Apollo 11 suggests that lone, individual courage belongs to the past. The astronauts often seem to be interchangeable parts of a vast mechanism. They are buffered by a thousand protective devices, encased in layers of metal and wires and transistors, their very heartbeats monitored for deviation. Most of their decisions are made by computers. Hundreds of ships, planes, doctors and technicians stand by to rescue...
...exclusively (excepting the interpolated songs) from the King James Version, Gospels and Apocrypha--are not, I think, to be take as acid annotations on either the myth they illustrate or the times which produced their referant images. Rather they serve to make unexpectedly immediate a story which it may seem has been literally told to death. Not so long ago, the armband had brief life in this town as the visible emblem of a curious sort of self-election. When the disciple in Jesus make their first appearance, wearing their armbands, both they and our strike that was gain...
...that, too, has seen its day. It seems that just about everyone's registered that wants to be. There are over 400 elected Negro officials across the state now (most of these are justices of the peace). But that doesn't seem to change anything. The big hope for the electoral process came in 1966 when Richmond Flowers ran for governor. Negroes put up candidates in more races than they ever have important offices. People don't look to the elections. It was only the most blatant and simple kinds of discrimination that could be undone by such...