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...last week passed another milestone in the space age-but this time the milestone was emotional as well as scientific. With the successful countdown and launch of Sigma 7, the near-flawless orbital performance of spacecraft and pilot and the extraordinary precision of impact and recovery, the U.S. space program graduated from quivering apprehension to solid confidence...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Space: Sweet Little Bird | 10/12/1962 | See Source »

...Liar? Capehart is working. Last week he abandoned Washington to campaign in his bull-like voice, beat a fist into a palm, and roar: "There's a hundred ships loaded with Russian equipment on the high seas heading for Cuba. This nation had better act." At a Sigma Delta Chi luncheon at the Indianapolis Athletic Club, the candidates clashed headon. Bayh claimed that Capehart had drawn $250,000 in federal benefits on his own farming operation while "trying to reduce the income of farmers," and that he had "deliberately violated" the rules of a Senate briefing on Cuba...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: The Pugilists | 9/28/1962 | See Source »

...Hollywood. In a town that makes a business of manufacturing dubious glamour, they have made a virtue of pink-scrubbed cheeks and moral beauty. They have also packaged their wholesome views into a weekly column that is carried by 270 papers in the U.S. and abroad. Last week Theta Sigma Phi, an honorary women's journalism society, named the sisters winners of its 1962 award for women who have achieved the most in journalism...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: How to be Beautiful & Pure in Hollywood | 9/7/1962 | See Source »

...expansive as anyone under the big sky, Vice President Lyndon Johnson forever tells people, "Come and see us, heah?" No less a Texan, Lady Bird Johnson, 49, wound up a talk to lady journalists at a Theta Sigma Phi convention in San Antonio by asking them all over for breakfast. When 50 accepted. Lady Bird, a Theta Sig since her days as a University of Texas journalism student in 1933 chartered a bus for the 78-mile drive to the L.B.J. ranch, laid on a brunch of deer sausages, grits, and homemade peach preserves, sent the newshens away clucking...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Jul. 6, 1962 | 7/6/1962 | See Source »

Hasty Pudding Institute, Pi Eta, Sigma Alpha Epsilon, and the Freshman Class will run their social events as scheduled. The fate of a dance planned by the Harvard Band has not definitely been decided...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: State to Allow House Dances This Saturday | 11/8/1961 | See Source »

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