Word: space
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...What a strange and wonderful day for the human soul. Our Men of the Year, Frank Borman, James Lovell and William Anders are home safe [Jan. 3]. Home from the moon and space, home from the perils that never happened, home to their families and friends and to something rare in the world that sent them. Home to the miracle of men feeling something together, men strangely undivided in a time of fierce dissension, men all over the earth feeling wonder and warmth and pride. And we suddenly wondered if somehow we could capture and preserve what we feel this...
...budget as a whole is in bad shape because we're spending $86 billion on our own military, and a lot of our foreign aid money on war toys for tin horn dictators. Not because we're spending what we do in space...
...until the existentialists take over from the colonels, it's dangerous to eclipse the space program because then we'd become even more dependent on military spending...
...important to realize that everything is related when it comes to parcelling out the government's money. All is one. You can't just kick the government's in the space program and expect to see money come pouring out over in the poverty place...
...never know what messing around in space might do for us. Maybe we'll discover a super new source of easy energy that will fix it all up just fine...