Word: steps
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...first step toward penetrating the mystery, Attorney General Robert Kennedy's Justice Department last week won an 18-count indictment against DeAngelis, whose Allied Crude Vegetable Oil Refining Corp. precipitated the scandal by going into bankruptcy. The counts charged DeAngelis with transporting across state lines $40 million worth of forged warehouse receipts for vegetable oil. DeAngelis pleaded not guilty to all counts. If convicted, he could get as much as a $10,000 fine and ten years in jail on each count...
...Circus. Gifford never was very fast, and after eleven seasons he may even have lost a step or two. But he does have one advantage over defensive halfbacks who run the 100 in 9.5 sec.: "I know where I'm going-they don't." Daintily, he trotted out to the flank in his sneakers. The ball was snapped, and he ran straight up to Glass, dipped his right shoulder as if to cut toward the sideline, then whirled and streaked across the field-leaving Glass with his legs hopelessly crossed. Tittle threw-and for a long instant...
With his MOL mandate, McNamara has given the Air Force a proper opportunity to prove its claims. The project will amount to a massive experiment checking on man's ability to function for long periods in space. And it will be a step toward demonstrating whether or not that functioning can have a military value to match its cost...
...such promise, though, McNamara insists that the first step must be to find out whether humans can stay in top form in space and perform difficult duties better than nonhuman instruments. This is by no means sure. Said Albert C. Hall, DOD's space expert, "The astronaut will have to do more than throw a switch, which is about all they have done in Mercury." The partisans of such manned space stations must also prove that an alert enemy cannot destroy them with a small fraction of the effort that it took to put them in orbit. Says skeptical...
Even some progressive churchmen agree that evangelical Christianity represents a step toward maturity of the conservative impulse. "Conservative Christianity is growing by trying to become respectable," says Dr. Nels Ferré of the liberal Andover Newton Theological School, and he credits it with seeking "an intelligent evangelical faith. The conservative movement is neither an obscurantist fundamentalism nor a negative modernism-and it is making inroads everywhere...