Word: spacing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...necessity, the space program will always suffer outside distractions from a Congress and public aroused by the Apollo tragedy and concerned about the huge costs of achieving man's age-old dream of conquering space. But now all the investigations have been made, the reports presented, hearings concluded. As Astronaut Alan B. Shepard Jr. said earlier this month at a celebration of the sixth anniversary of his Mercury flight: "The time for recrimination is over. Let's get on with...
...Chase Smith. The truth was, he admitted to the committee, that the Martin Company had been the first choice because of its superior "technical information." But he and three of his assistants, he said, overruled the board's recommendation-logically enough-on grounds that North American had more space experience, and had submitted cost estimates that were 30% to 40% lower than Martin's. The biggest howl against Webb was raised when he refused repeatedly to discuss in open session a NASA staff report that was harshly critical of North American's early work on the Apollo...
Giant alligators fought for space in the shrinking ponds, or else sought moisture by burrowing into the mud. Schools of bream and bass flopped listlessly in ever shallower hideaways, attracting great white herons from their natural seashore habitat. Vultures and buzzards, turning endlessly in the sky, were glutted by the carnage, leaving to park rangers the unsavory task of carting away thousands of putrid fish...
...villages or moved to permanent resettlement villages to take up a normal life again. In practice, however, they are often left in temporary camps for three years or more, living on a bare subsistence diet handed out by the government and spending their interminable idle hours staring glumly into space. Says Vo Van Seo, a 50-year-old ex-farmer who has spent the past four months at a "model" refugee camp near Saigon: "There is no fighting here, no bombs. But the life is so miserable, and the future looks...
...that the afterlife, whatever its form, must somehow preserve individual awareness. "Since I conceive of myself as a consciousness which is open to others in love," says Hilsdale, "I feel fairly certain that I will be able to think and to love in the next life. If this requires space, then there will be space. If it requires time, there will be time. I'm not so sure that it requires either...