Word: thoughtfulness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Some time ago I thought it would be interesting to know if historians would refer to this decade as the "sicksties" or the "sexties...
...test pilot for the X-15 rocket plane, which he flew at 3,989 m.p.h. and an altitude of 207,500 ft.?both records at the time. In the early days of the space program, Armstrong had no desire to become an astronaut. Says a close acquaintance: "He thought those guys were playing around with a lot of marbles." After the "marbles" began lifting other pilots into space, he changed his mind and in 1962 became one of the second group of astronauts to be chosen. As a civilian, he is paid more than any other astronaut...
...least one of the 92, that idea was welcome. "I would not object to the danger," a U.N. observer from Scandinavia said in Cairo, "if I thought I was accomplishing something. But nobody listens any more. You request a ceasefire, and they smile and keep firing." That lack of accomplishment was painfully apparent. In what amounted to Egypt's most successful cross-Suez attack since the end of the 1967 war, "special commando forces" penetrated Israeli positions near Port Tewfik, severely damaging two tanks, killing five Israelis, wounding another three and taking one prisoner. (Egypt, in a characteristic exaggeration...
...Vietnamese nationalism. At his trial, Lau retracted his earlier confession that he had known his contact to be a Viet Cong agent, then added: "I did not serve the Communists. My only work was journalism. Everyone knows that I am a nationalist." Says a Saigon police official: "Lau thought he saw a ceasefire and a coalition government coming. He was trying to swim between two currents. He thought he could talk to the other side and still be considered a patriot by the present government...
...followed wide-eyed behind Pat Nixon on a tour of the 104-ft.-long vessel, now named Sequoia, as a Navy crew piloted them downstream on a two-hour voyage. It was the first of a series of 14 cruises the First Lady plans for children this summer. "I thought it could be put to better use," said she, dishing out soda pop and other goodies while a Marine Corps combo and a folk singer provided music. The only sour note came from a National Park Service director who remarked at one point that it would take 20 years...