Word: things
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...first satellite launching I ever covered," says TIME'S Houston Bureau Chief Don Neff, "seemed to me the most thrilling thing I had ever seen." That was in 1959, and Neff has been searching for more expansive superlatives ever since. He has watched other space shots, and as each one traveled farther or stayed in orbit longer, Neff was more and more impressed by the skill and dedication of the engineers and scientists whose work he reported. He was on hand at California's Jet Propulsion Laboratory when word was passed that Mariner 4 had made a successful...
...floor and finally found an escape route. They brought me down on a freight elevator, then walked me through the kitchen to my limousine. But just as I got through the kitchen, some maid spotted me and let out a whoop. I ducked and hid my face. The last thing I wanted was for someone to start applauding then. But she'd recognized me, and damn if the whole place didn't start clapping...
...approving term, largely "existential," meaning that they lacked any clear-cut ideology or program. Yippies accept no leaders, not even their own, and Daley and his men could scarcely make much sense of yippie manifestos like that of Abbie Hoffman, who saw the movement as "new phenomena, a new thing on the American scene. Why? That's our question. Our slogan is Why? You know as long as we can make up a story about it that's exciting, mystical, magical, you have to accuse us of going to Chicago to perform magic...
...Deutsche Mark by threatening to withdraw Britain's 48,500-man Army of the Rhine from West Germany. In the House of Commons, Wilson flatly denounced Ahlers' story as "quite false." "I deplore this," said the Prime Minister, adding: "I have never known such a thing in four years of communications with over 100 heads of government...
...first and last pieces in the Turkey issue show the two poles of the current Poonie identity crisis. A purported ad placed by "Gershon Rolnick" is at the end, protesting the Lampoon's anti-contraception march last month. Even though the whole thing smacks a bit of self-congratulatory free publicity for clever pranks, the ad is funny, and one suspects that the Poonies' hearts lie with this kind of straight-joke appeal...