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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...future stronghold of the G.O.P. "Now that the national Democratic Party is becoming the Negro party throughout most of the South," says Phillips, "the alienation of white Wallace voters is likely to persist." He reasons that the G.O.P. must be conservative enough to undercut George Wallace or any third-party leader like...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Republicans: Abandon the Cities? | 8/1/1969 | See Source »

...moon walk itself raised almost as many questions as it answered. "They had more mobility and they were able to move faster with greater ease than some of us expected," said Gilruth. "They only used about half to a third of the oxygen and water that we might have expected them to use." But why did Aldrin have so much trouble penetrating the lunar surface beyond a few inches with his core sampler? Why was he able to plant the stand for the solar wind experiment only a few feet away with such ease? Why did the blast from...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Moon: SOME MYSTERIES SOLVED, SOME QUESTIONS RAISED | 8/1/1969 | See Source »

...like an orchestra conductor," says Christopher Columbus Kraft, flight operations director for the Apollo missions. "I don't write the music, I just make sure it comes out right." Chris Kraft's unlikely podium is the windowless Mission Operations Control Room on the third floor of Building 30 at NASA's Manned Spacecraft Center near Houston. His musicians are the 30 controllers who sit at four rows of gray computer consoles, monitoring some 1,500 constantly changing items of information registered on gauges, dials and meters. Kraft's primary instrument is a pair...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Moon: MISSION CONTROL: FIDO, GUIDO AND RETRO | 8/1/1969 | See Source »

...Committee held hearings on Stauder and a teaching fellow. A third teaching fellow who earlier wanted to renew his appointment has now decided to abandon this attempt. This case was dismissed...

Author: By Samuel Z. Goldhaber, | Title: Joint Committee Gets Statement by Stauder | 7/29/1969 | See Source »

...helpers will vote this afternoon on whether to accept Teamsters Local 82 as their union. Henry E. Helms, executive director of Morgan Memorial, sent out letters to the drivers which said, "I sincerely hope you will preserve your right to deal directly with Morgan Memorial rather than through a third party. You can do this by voting NO on union recognition...

Author: By Richard E. Hyland, | Title: Leafleters Arrested At Morgan Memorial Strike | 7/29/1969 | See Source »

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