Word: spacing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Congress thus showed an alarming eagerness to chop hardest at politically vulnerable programs despite their proven value-one in furthering U.S. policy abroad, the others in coping with urgent problems at home. Military spending not directly related to Viet Nam will likely be reduced as well, along with the space program and such public works as highway construction and waterway improvement. The Federal Aviation Agency, the Atomic Energy Commission, the Post Office and other agencies also stand to lose some money...
...SPACE ODYSSEY. Director Stanley Kubrick's stunning film, which defines man's past and describes his future, uses some of the most mind-bending visual effects in motion-picture history...
...Aleksei Nikolaevich (son of Nikolai). The absence of such a patronymic exposes a child to humiliation in what remains essentially a prudish society. The illegitimate child is usually given his mother's last name, but sometimes the mother refuses to register him rather than let the infamous "blank space" for the father's name haunt the child all his life...
...days after they are bought or sold. Compounded by increasing clerical errors, the discrepancies and slippages by last week had reached a point where an estimated $4.5 billion worth of undelivered stock was caught in the clotted pipelines. "There aren't enough people, there's not enough space and there's not enough equipment to cope with the volume," said Partner Paul Tobin of the Manhattan brokerage firm of Paine, Webber, Jackson & Curtis...
...trade: that the poet's natural enemies remain varied and dangerous. The hostile forces manifest themselves as rich but tasteless patrons, pop singers, and even other poets, one of whom steals the Minotaur theme and turns it into a screenplay for Son of the Beast from Outer Space...