Word: thankfully
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Last week, as they prepared for the forthcoming Apollo 9 mission, officials in Houston paid tribute to Houbolt, who quit NASA in 1963 and now works for an aeronautical-research firm in Princeton, N.J. "I just thank my lucky stars that guys like Houbolt came along," said Caldwell Johnson, chief of the manned-spacecraft-design office. "I suppose that Columbus had some help...
...Thank you for the lovely coverage of our Sao Paulo Museum of Art [Jan. 31]. Glad as we are to see international recognition of our efforts toward giving our adopted city a museum worthy of its cultural level, my wife and I and our friends were astonished to read that, unbeknown to us, we have been divorced. Lest I be beseeched by a bevy of suitors who will press for Lina Bo's hand, I would be grateful if TIME were to put it on record that after three decades, my wife and I are still very much married...
...Thank you for bringing to the attention of the American public the disgusting injustice that has long plagued the Catholics in Northern Ireland [Jan. 31]. Granted, the British have come a long way since the days of Henry VIII-but they still have a long way to come before Northern Ireland comes out of the Dark Ages...
...enthusiasm for business seems to be waning. "When a man is in his 40s," he says, "he realizes that there are only so many years in which to do certain things. I have decided that putting my philosophy in book form can wait until I'm 60." Thank God for that...
...opened his eyes, looked at John, and held him by the arm; then he looked at Elizabeth, to whom he had come to feel close, and said, "Thank you, Elizabeth." He held her hand, and then looked around and said, "and all the rest of you too." He saw that everybody was smiling, and then felt within his won body that same high, other-world, free and beautiful feeling that he had seen on other people's faces. He returned to his place in the circle and lay on his back to practice breathing. There was silence in the room...