Word: specializing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...also a vindication of some traditional strengths and precepts in the American character and experience: perseverance, organizational skill, the willingness to respond to competition-even the belief that the U.S. enjoys a special destiny in the world. Like the World War II Manhattan Project that created the Abomb, the space program exemplifies a particularly American genius...
There is a special affinity between Richard Nixon and the people of middle America. TIME'S Washington bureau chief, Iowa-born Hugh Sidey, flew with Nixon across the Pacific last week and reflected...
...legacy in the future? In his first speech after the murder in Los Angeles of Brother Robert, Edward Moore Kennedy proclaimed: "Like my three brothers before me, I pick up a fallen standard. Sustained by the memory of our priceless years together, I shall try to carry forward that special commitment to justice, to excellence, to courage that distinguished their lives." (See pictures of intimate moments with the Kennedys...
...Kennedy Get Back to Edgartown? On TV he said that he had Gargan and Markham drive him to the ferry crossing. The last scheduled ferry had already left?though it was possible by special arrangements to have service resumed. On a sudden impulse, Kennedy said, he jumped into the water and swam the 250-yard channel separating Chappaquiddick from Martha's Vineyard, "nearly drowning once again in the effort." Finally, he said, he collapsed in his hotel room, going out only once before morning to talk to a man he identified as a clerk. Russell E. Peachey, actually...
...Nixon trip began with a nod toward accommodation rather than confrontation with China. Washington announced relaxation of 19-year-old strictures on trade with and travel to mainland China. The new regulation allows travel to China-without special application to the State Department beyond normal passport procedures-for members of Congress, teachers, scholars with postgraduate degrees, undergraduates, scientists, medical doctors, Red Cross representatives and journalists. The relaxed rule also permits U.S. tourists to buy up to $100 worth of goods manufactured on the Chinese mainland. Substantively, the changes could not be considered as very important. As the U.S. expected, Peking...