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...have felt that certainly over the past three years, this country, and perhaps America's relations in the world, needed to cool down some. I would be the first to say that I am not a table thumper or a shouter?not often at least ?but of course charisma is something else. Charisma, basically, I think most sophisticates say, is style. I don't intend to change my style. I determined that when I came into office. Of course I couldn't if I wanted...
...This time the EVA (ExtraVehicular Activity) will include some fireworks-real ones. Earlier lunar seismic experiments have been largely passive; that is, the seismometers have usually depended on the occurrence of moonquakes or other natural rumblings to make readings. Now, with the help of a new gadget called a "thumper," which resembles a heavily weighted walking stick, Mitchell will create some miniature moonquakes of his own. As he walks past three widely spaced seismic listening devices called geophones, he will place the thumper on the surface and detonate one of 21 explosive charges in its base plate...
...started with the electric eels, only to discover that the large ??l had been replaced by a diminuitive imposter. Perhaps the former resident had rudely scorched an impetuous glass-thumper to ashes and been retired. The wave machine was impressive. For an awesome instant, impossible to determine, the emerald mass reverse curls and thrusts itself back over itself in mighty interference. But empty water quickly becomes tedious, so we hurried to the first fish of note, the orange Garibaldi. He bore little if any resemblance to the Italian nationalist, resembling rather a stationary section of antipasto. From Garibaldi we walked...
Wednesday, August 23 WEDNESDAY NIGHT MOVIE (ABC, 8-11 p.m.).* Stewart Granger, Pier Angeli, Anouk Aimee and Stanley Baker in the 1963 Bible thumper, Sodom and Gomorrah. Repeat...
...William Belden Noble Lectures have only twice been given by an active politician. Theodore Roosevelt '80 who delivered the series of three lectures in 1910 was an experienced bible-thumper as well as a politician, and his reputation was not at all incompatible with the founder's aims for the lectures: "To arouse in young men, and primarily in the men of Harvard University, the joy of service for Christ and humanity, especially in the ministry of the Christian Church...