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...arced on a graceful, curving course toward the moon. From a secret launching pad, half the world away, Soviet scientists fired a missile that spewed out two separate satellites. The variety of the shots was as impressive as the number, and the infinite distances of the universe seemed to shrink perceptibly as men reached outward with more and more authority...
...long history of the world, only a few generations have been granted the role of defending freedom in its hours of maximum danger," he said, as his breath steamed in the cold air. "I do not shrink from this responsibility-I welcome it. I do not believe that any of us would exchange places with any other people, or any other generation. The energy, the faith, the devotion which we bring to this endeavor will light our country and all who serve it-and the glow from that fire can truly light the world...
...holds in his mortal hands the power to abolish all forms of human poverty and all forms of human life... In the long history of the world, only a few generations have been granted the role of defending freedom in its hours of maximum danger. I do not shrink from this responsibility; I welcome...
...emissary of Pope Pius XII bought him a $450 vicuna dressing gown. But Abercrombie never lost much sleep on the girls-if they insisted on coming along. Judging from what they offered women who would ahunting go, Abercrombie's idea of female sporting wear was to shrink down a man's khaki shirt, slack off the seat of the trousers, and add a veil to the sun helmet. Part of Margaret Macomber's hostility to her luckless husband must have been her feeling that she looked awful...
...full committee to soften the bill, the flood of publicity that accompanied his testimony, ironically, scared the group so badly that it may actually approve the bill. Liberal Congressmen who might have voted to weaken the measure in the usually secret process of committee "markup" now shrink from seeming to oppose civil rights legislation. Republicans are not about to help the President escape from what is daily becoming a more embarrassing dilemma, and the Southerners are delighted to vote for a harsh bill in committee, believing as they do that it cannot pass on the floor...