Word: space
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Careering throughout the boundaries of space...
...three astronauts, representatives of the Establishment reading Genesis while spinning in space, recording scientific data for the ages to come, with faith in God and their fellow scientists, show up the puerile nihilism and obscenity, the physical and mental shabbiness of our youthful dropouts like a bright light in a dank dungeon. Any hippie, yippie, card burner or other destructive zealot who reads your article and doesn't drop in to 1) a bathtub, 2) a barber shop and 3) an employment office, must be completely devoid of imagination and vision...
...year, those of Cabinet members from $35,000 to $60,000. (Last week the Congress approved a 100% salary boost for the President, to $200,000.) Johnson requested no new money for the U.S. supersonic transport and suggested cuts of $300 million in space spending, $540 million in farm-price supports and $120 million in foreign aid. He asked for an extra $743 million for the Department of Housing and Urban Development, mainly for its model-cities and housing-subsidy programs...
This is the age of overlapping ages-the atomic age, the jet age, the space age, the age of cybernetics and now of protest. Time has been telescoped as never before. Rome enjoyed three centuries of imperial power. Britain dominated much of the world for 100 years. The U.S. has only recently emerged fully onto the world scene, its influence vast and apparently to continue; yet Americans have already begun to question the durability of their power. After the anguished strain of World War II, the country quickly learned to live with a cold war, making rather enlightened attempts...
...investment has added enormously to U.S. resources. In the fields of physics, chemistry, medicine and physiology, Americans have won 31 out of 63 Nobel prizes. Among the discoveries in pure science attributed to American scholars in the last decade are the total synthesis of cortisone, intense radiation in outer space (the Van Allen belt), the magnification of light (the laser) and the discovery of intergalactic...