Word: takings
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Nixon appears to be trying for a consensus. I think you only obtain a consensus by accident; you can never create it. When it exists for you, you take great advantage of it, as Johnson did for a period of time. But when you're riding a number of horses, you only look good until they split up to go around a tree. L.B.J. came to his tree in Viet...
...started desegregation suits against eight Southern school districts and warned a state and two cities to comply with federal guidelines or face court action. One of the warnings, aimed at Georgia, was hardly unexpected. Two others came ,as a surprise. The Administration ordered the city of Waterbury, Conn., to take immediate action to end racial imbalance in its schools or face a suit. It also gave Chicago a fortnight to end faculty segregation or face similar action (see box). Despite this flurry of activity, liberals and blacks, familiar with the slow pace of court proceedings, remain skeptical about the Administration...
...offered to meet with the N.L.F. for discussion of "the timetable and the modalities under which the elections will be held." Thieu did not specify which offices might be contested or how the voting would be supervised, but he invited "all political parties and groups," including the N.L.F., to take part in overseeing the elections...
...vehicles that will take Astronauts Neil Armstrong, Edwin Aldrin and Michael Collins on their epic journey have been aptly named. The lunar module that will land on the moon's surface has been christened Eagle because, Armstrong said, it is "representative of the flight and the nation's hope." The command module that will carry the astronauts back to earth has been dubbed Columbia, a close approximation of Columbiad, the name that Jules Verne gave to his lunar craft in his 1865 novel, From the Earth to the Moon. Prophetically, Verne launched Columbiad from a site in Florida...
California Institute of Technology Astronomer Fritz Zwicky believes that observations from the moon will quickly yield answers to two major astronomical problems. With telescopes on the moon, scientists can take more definitive spectrums from the light of remote stars, and perhaps obtain decisive data about the universal "red shift" of light (caused by the speeding outward of distant galaxies). By precisely measuring the shift?and thus the speed of recession?of these galaxies, scientists should be able to determine whether the universe will continue to expand eternally or eventually stop and then begin contracting. "It could settle once...