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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Lyndon Johnson's initial attempts to open negotiations aimed at checking the nuclear-arms race. Moscow made no secret of the fact that it was going ahead with its own ABM. As early as 1962, Nikita Khrushchev bragged that his anti-missile weapon could "hit a fly in the sky...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: THE ABM: A NUCLEAR WATERSHED | 3/14/1969 | See Source »

...first it was only a tiny speck in the sky. Then, as Astronaut David Scott peered through the window of Apollo 9's orbiting command module, the speck grew into the most ungainly manned craft ever sent into orbit. Said Scott: "You're the biggest, friendliest, funniest-looking spider I've ever seen." He was talking to the lunar module, known as Spider, and it bore two other astronauts who had earlier left Scott to guide it through space. By flying their ship through orbital maneuvers designed to simulate those to be used by astronauts returning from...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: A Spectacular Step Toward Lunar Landing | 3/14/1969 | See Source »

...country's second largest city and the coastal hub of northernmost I Corps, suffered greater damage. Rockets and mortar rounds poured into the city as well as into surrounding military installations. Chain explosions rocked an ammunition dump, setting huge fires raging and pumping black smoke high into the sky. A Marine hangar at the airfield was damaged. Incoming rounds hit a bare 200 yards from the headquarters of the Third Marine Amphibious Force, damaging the naval support headquarters just across the Danang River...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World: A GRIM REMINDER THAT THE WAR GOES ON | 2/28/1969 | See Source »

...Harvard fencers, sky-high after their upset victory over league-leading Princeton last Saturday, will be looking for their third victory in a row when they meet Brandeis at the IAB today...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Swordsmen Host Brandeis Today | 2/26/1969 | See Source »

Just after Christmas we went on a picnic. It was raining and grey and a perfect day for Volkswagens. I drove through Tomoka Park, down narrow roads with Spanish moss above, hiding the sky. We stopped and watched a silent group of pure white egrets perch high in some palm trees on an island in the marsh. Then we rode down a twisting, red clay road to the Bulow Sugar Mill Plantation ruins. Once there, we got out, and I jumped around for a while. Gayle followed, but she was always conscious of the fact that she was getting...

Author: By Timothy Carlson, | Title: You Can't Go Home Again | 2/22/1969 | See Source »

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