Word: solids
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Solid Evidence. The significance of the program lies beneath the figure juggling. For years, Washington has given lip service to the idea that recipients of aid must show they deserve it by helping themselves. This time, Johnson emphasized his theme of "action, not promises," in his message to Congress. Specifically, the U.S. expects beneficiary nations to "invest every possible resource in improving farming techniques, in school and hospital construction and in critical industry; make land reforms, tax changes and other basic adjustments necessary to transform their societies; face the population problem squarely and realistically; create the climate that will attract...
...unmanned Luna 9 spacecraft softly on the surface of the moon in condition to take and transmit pictures, Russian space scientists did more than edge ahead of the U.S. in the race to place a man on the lunar landscape. They proved that he would find a surface solid enough to stand on when he got there. Inexplicably, after announcing the landing, the Russians delayed capitalizing further on their triumph. Then, when British astronomers intercepted Luna 9's pictures and released them first, a Soviet scientist lamely charged them with "certain motives of a sensational nature...
...exacting sports. The trick is to stay just short of disaster, taking the steeply banked turns as high as possible (so as to pick up speed on the way down), threading an absolutely straight course through the narrow straightaways, where a momentary miscalculation will slam the sled into a solid wall...
...SOLID MANDALA by Patrick White. 309 pages. Viking...
Despite some shortcoming in the remainder of the huge cast, Michael Murray's production holds up well. No thanks to the worthless Gregorian chant which Murray has inserted between scencs, the play maintains a solid continuity which should appeal to any kind of audience. And with the help of Tony van Bridge, the fire is there -- the play often wraps and wiggles with the power of a python. The Charles, in short, deserves a medal both for its courage in attempting Galileo and for its large measure of success in setting off so many of the depth charges which Brecht...