Word: spacing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...SPACE ODYSSEY. Stanley Kubrick's cosmic parable of the history and future of man contains some of the most stunning visual pyrotechnics in the history of the motion picture...
...that surprising. The only surprise, in fact, was the look on Wallace's face. Beaming with pleasure and pride, the Alabamian introduced his candidate to a Pittsburgh press conference, then stepped aside to let the general speak. Wallace's expression quickly turned to obvious dismay. Within the space of a minute, LeMay had made even Wallace appear, by contrast, the image of the statesmanlike candidate...
Barely audible cries and the muffled thudding of fists came from a rented truck parked beneath a pitiless sun in San Antonio, Texas. Summoned to in vestigate, police smashed the truck's locked back door, peered inside and recoiled. Crammed into the airless, oven-hot space were 47 Mexican laborers. One was dead, two dying. Fifteen others had to be hospitalized for heat prostration. The truck driver had fled. For the hapless Mexicans, it was the end of a dream of jobs in Chicago as illegal wetback immigrants. Each had paid 1,250 pesos ($100) to be brought into...
...believe this nation should commit itself to achieving the goal, before this decade is out, of landing a man on the moon and returning him safely to earth. No single space project in this period will be more impressive to mankind, or more important for the long-range exploration of space; and none will be so difficult or expensive to accomplish. In a very real sense, it will not be one man going to the moon-it will be an entire nation...
...government of Mexican President Gustavo Diaz Ordaz is not acting in a state of temporary insanity--driven to such lengths by the booty offered it by the Olympic Games. Twice in the space of 18 months Diaz has ordered similar massacres of unarmed civilians--in the state of Guerrero last summer and at the University of Hermosillo a few months before. The Olympics must not be allowed to serve as a cover for Diaz plans for silencing students with genuine grievances...