Word: similars
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Behind the argument is an important issue. A quake would suggest that the moon, like the earth, has a molten interior and earthlike stratifications. These common characteristics, moreover, would strongly suggest that the earth and the moon have similar evolutionary histories. Apollo's seismometer may not have much more time to supply answers. Near week's end, as the two-week lunar day approached its hottest point (240° F.) the small instrument package seemed to be heating up and verging on a breakdown...
...most exciting promise, they say, is not in the technical achievements themselves, but in the mastery and management of the multiple skills that have produced them. Teams of specialists had to harness their disparate talents in order to make so vast an enterprise as the Apollo program succeed. A similar cooperative effort, they contend, could be equally effective in tackling more earthly problems from urban planning to pollution. To be sure, the vagaries of human emotions are far more unpredictable than even the variables involved in a moon mission. Just defining the problems is a more challenging task than spelling...
...similar action, James Q. Wilson, chairman of the Government Department, informed Ford that his department would also stand by its original recommendations. Wilson did so after consulting with member of his department...
...citizen groups charging invasion of privacy. Legislators in Arizona, California, Iowa, New Jersey, New York and Oklahoma have recently debated the merits of sex-education programs. Last May, New York's Governor Nelson Rockefeller approved a conservative-backed law withholding state funds from sex education courses, and a similar bill has been proposed in Congress to withhold federal monies. Tennessee has adopted a new law making it a misdemeanor for a teacher to present sex courses without prior approval of both the state government and local boards of education...
Daniel Webster remarked about Dartmouth, "It is, sir, as I have said, a small college, and yet there are those who love it." If a similar statement could sum up West Point, it might be found in the words of one devout cadet who said, "It's better to sire an illegitimate child than to marry and violate West Point regulations...