Word: summing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Washington the Administration saluted the Russians for "a fine job." And a fine job it was, aiding not merely the Russian standing in the space race but the longer-range human adventures of science and exploration. Every lap completed in the space race, by whichever competitor, adds to the sum of mankind's knowledge and carries him closer to the stars...
...Washington expelled Valentin M. Ivanov, first secretary of the Soviet embassy, accusing him of paying a young American "a substantial sum" to seek a U.S. Government job. But there were signs that the Soviet government was making progress in its campaign to keep ordinary Russians away from contact with foreigners: it doesn't take much to revive memories. Reported Los Angeles Schoolteacher Betty Jean Koferts, who was shadowed on her Soviet trip because she dated a Russian boy: "They took him to police headquarters and warned him against seeing me again . . . Most people there are afraid of Americans...
...follow the sit-ins?" asked Lee. "Just imagine if all the people who live in the slums of our great cities were to leave their tenements, take chairs into the middle of the streets and sit out under the stars on some fine sum mer evening at 5:30? Perhaps then, when traffic ground to a halt and commuters were late for supper, we could convince some of the bankers and landlords and businessmen who make their livings in the cities but live in the suburbs to take a walk through the slums and see the conditions which prevail...
...only a matter of time and began looking for a face-saving way to get Katanga back into the Congo. The government pulled back a token 1,500 of the 10,000 troops in Katanga, and the Belgian National Bank quietly advanced the Congo Central Bank an undisclosed sum (reportedly $8,000,000) to meet the government's August payroll. Congo President Joseph Kasavubu declared: "I now see our affairs in the colors of the rose-though of course roses have thorns...
What the Eye Sees. In sum, television was at its best covering the few worthwhile speeches in the heat of their delivery; the faces of big and little politicians with their masks down; and some great human interest moments, as when Senator Barry Goldwater's teen-age daughter leaned out of her box during the floor demonstration for her father and literally wept into an NBC microphone. But the networks' competitive zeal, their cameras poking at every face and their microphones inching up to every mouth, reached a point of diminishing returns. Too often TV reporters were...