Word: sternest
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...began the sternest test for Lyndon Johnson on his six-nation tour of Asia as the personal emissary of President John F. Kennedy. Earlier in the week, Johnson had had his problems in the Philippines, where President Carlos Garcia made no secret of his dismay at the soft stand of the U.S. in Laos. In Taipei, Johnson reassured Chiang Kai-shek that the U.S. has no intention of recognizing Red China, intends to stand faithfully behind its commitment to defend Formosa...
...scientist's sternest task is to admit the inevitable, and in space travel the unhappy inevitable may be that man can never journey "safely" to the moon and planets. But scientists are making plans just the same. The huge, multistage rocket with which Russia launched its Dognik could boost a 600-lb. capsule into orbit around the moon, and the size of the capsule can be increased by 100 Ibs. for each additional 20,000 Ibs. of thrust that Soviet scientists can coax from the boost er. Says a U.S. engineer: "The Russians probably could soft-land an instrument...
...foreign leaders the one who did most to prove freedom strong?by confronting it with its sternest tests?was the Soviet Union's Nikita Khrushchev. In 1957 Khrushchev's Sputniks made him Man of the Year. In 1959 he scored even greater successes in space: on Jan. 2 the U.S.S.R. sent a 3,245-lb. package into sun orbit as the first man-made planet; eight months later, a Soviet rocket smacked the face of the moon, and on Oct. 4, two years to the day after Sputnik I, the Russians launched a rocket that passed around and photographed...