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...ugliest of ducklings. Bulging and misshapen, bristling with squiggles of antennas, the LM seemed more the creation of scientists gone mad than a craft entrusted with Project Apollo's most crucial task: to land astronauts on the moon and lift them off again. But in a seven-hour test flight, LM last week performed like a full-fledged space swan...
...Castro began swinging toward Moscow, Matos sounded the alarm. "The Communists are in the driver's seat," he warned, "trying to steal the revolution." When Castro refused to kick the Communists out of his inner circle, Matos resigned. The next day, Castro had him arrested. After a seven-hour courtroom harangue by Castro, he was convicted...
...money was earmarked for pensions and pay raises for Government employees and servicemen, the Republicans aimed instead at what they considered to be two Great Society ruffles: a $12 million rent-subsidy program for the poor and a $10 million Teachers Corps project for impoverished neighborhoods. During a seven-hour, bitterly partisan debate, the Republicans tried to strike out the rent-subsidy funds. But the Democratic leadership had done its work well. The attempt failed narrowly, 198 to 190, with six Republicans helping to foil it. Later the entire bill passed by a comfortable 269-to-122 margin...
...laymen the most," says David Edwards, editor of the Anglican SCM Press. Last month the University of Colorado sponsored a teach-in on God, featuring William Hamilton and Dr. George Forell of the University of Iowa's School of Religion; more than 1,700 people showed up for the seven-hour session?a greater turnout than for a recent similar talkfest on Viet Nam. At the University of California at Santa Barbara, students and faculty jammed two lecture halls to hear Harvey Cox talk on "The 'Death of God' and the Future of Theology...
...Modicum of Courage. Eastern Europe's breakaway from Russian rule began in 1956, when Nikita Khrushchev denounced Stalin at the Soviet 20th Party Congress in his seven-hour "secret speech." By cracking the icon of invincibility that had held Russia in thrall, Khrushchev also unlocked-unwittingly-the forces of Eastern European nationalism. Says one Washington observer: "Nationalism is the strongest force in Eastern Europe today, stronger than ideology, stronger than the Communist parties themselves." Columbia's Kremlinologist Zbigniew Brzezinski puts it flatly: "East Europe is where the dream of Communist internationalism lies buried...