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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Lady Bird Johnson had not reckoned with Stewart Udall. She watched unsuspecting as the Interior Secretary formally announced the planting of 2,700 dogwood trees and 1,000,000 daffodils on a beautiful 121-acre island park in the Potomac River. Then she sat up with a start as Udall announced that what was Columbia Island will henceforth be known as "Lady Bird Johnson Park...
...newspaper survive when its two publishers are in basic disagreement? That is the question facing the Manhattan Tribune, a weekly tabloid just started in New York. William Haddad, a member of the New York City School Board, and Roy Innis, National Director of CORE, are not only of different color-Haddad is white, Innis black-but also hold rival views on integration. Haddad is for it, Innis against. Still, the editors believe that by airing disagreements in print they can help start a dialogue between increasingly embittered white and black communities...
...change." Nevertheless, the two have some grounds for agreement. "Roy and I," says Haddad, "are not such purists that we can't isolate a problem and discuss it. We can both agree, for instance, on the need for developing black institutions." They plan to start a journalism training program for Negro and Puerto Rican youngsters. And they both share an enthusiasm for an uphill enterprise: New York City is not notably hospitable to struggling young newspapers. The Tribune is getting some help, editorial as well as financial, from an advisory committee that includes Time Inc. Chairman Andrew Heiskell...
...Apollo's orbit to 70 miles above the cratered lunar landscape, which the astronauts will survey and photograph. Eight revolutions later, the engine will be called on for a third-and crucial-firing. That jolt will enable the Apollo to escape the moon's gravitational pull and start the three astronauts speeding back to earth. Just 7½ days after takeoff, Apollo 8 should parachute into the Pacific. Total distance traveled (exclusive of the ten rides around the moon): nearly half a million miles...
Some of Cliburn's admirers believe that such lapses-as well as the lengthening pauses between record releases-result from the strain of trying to be both an artist and a commercial phenomenon in the music business. To keep up the momentum that started in Moscow in 1958, Cliburn plays a punishing concert schedule of well over 100 appearances a year. At fees that start at $7,500 for a solo appearance, this means that he makes something like a million dollars a year, including record royalties -although he coyly denies that he is rich ("Heavens, no!"). Furthermore...