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Parvey said she thought the atmosphere today is more congenial to the study of religion than it was ten years ago during what she called "the Sputnik Generation." She said students are more interested today in basic questions of human values, and "that's what religion is all about...
...Ford was up against considerable resistance and lacking in the support the sciences had enjoyed a few years earlier. The Cold War, post-Sputnik boom had worn off and along with it gushing Federal funding for scientific research had dried up into a trickle. Student interest was moving steadily away from the sciences and science Ph.D.s. who only five years before had to fight off job offers, now had to fight off unemployment...
...fill-in-the-blank portion of our test. Pencils ready? If Rich ard Nixon gives Leonid Brezhnev a Cadillac, then the Soviet leader should give the President a . Well, what? What socialist product evokes the Communist system the way a Cadillac does U.S. capitalism? A personal, hand-controlled Sputnik? A collective farm...
...Ford was up against considerable resistance and lacking in the support the sciences had enjoyed a few years earlier. The Cold War, post-Sputnik boom had worn off and along with it gushing Federal funding for scientific research had dried up into a trickle. Student interest was moving steadily away from the sciences and science Ph.D.s, who only five years before had to fight off job offers, now had to fight off unemployment...
...delicate problem of steering the mission past the national pride and sensitivities of both sides. That responsibility will rest heavily with the directors of the project. For the Russians, the man in charge will be Konstantin Bushuyev, a 58-year-old aerospace engineer whose involvement in Russian rocketry predates Sputnik. For the U.S., the project director is 35-year-old Glynn Lunney, until now chief of the flight director's office in Houston and best remembered for his calmly professional performance in Mission Control during the near-disastrous flight of Apollo 13. Neither side has made its final selection...