Word: sonly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Jack became a presidential possibility after the 1956 convention, Joe was careful to recede more and more into the background. The idea that father and son almost never agreed on political issues was encouraged. "Dad is a financial genius, all right," John Kennedy once said, "but in politics he is something else...
...patriarch was virtually invisible during the 1960 campaign. But on Jan. 20, 1961, he sat reviewing the inaugural parade with translucent pride beside his son, the 35th President of the U.S. Then the brief realization of his dream began...
...spacecraft computer. Astronauts Conrad and Alan Bean headed straight toward the target picked months earlier in Houston: Surveyor Crater, which forms Snowman's torso and is the spot where 21 years ago the unmanned Surveyor 3 landed on the moon. Conrad could scarcely believe his eyes. "Son of a gun!" he said. "Right down the middle of the road...
...Alexander Daniel, the 20-year-old son of Yuli, was denied admission to Tartu University in Estonia, although he had been accepted earlier and had graduated at the top of his high school class. Recently he was fired from a menial job in the computer center of the Moscow Engineering Institute. At a meeting called to discuss young Daniel's case, the rector of the institute, Nikolai Strel-huk, expressed particular dissatisfaction about the number of Jews, like Daniel, who had been hired at the institute...
...audience that included many clergymen and nuns was stunned by the sex, brutality and abrasive language of a play called The Meteor. Nor did the playwright ease their discomfort, as he accepted an honorary D.Lit. before the final performance at Temple's Tomlinson Theater. Friedrich Durrenmatt, 48, irreverent son of a Protestant minister, read his acceptance speech seated on a rumpled bed on the play's set-the same bed where, a few minutes later, a naked woman sprawled as her husband painted her portrait. Said the Swiss dramatist: "My academic career has now been successfully completed...